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A few plugins need more complex dependency calculations than ikiwiki can do
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on its own:
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* Use of a version plugin should only make the page rebuild when it's built
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with a new version of ikiwiki.
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* The [[plugins/sidebar]] plugin should make any page get rebuilt if a
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sidebar is created "closer" to it than the current sidebar.
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* Some plugin might want to _always_ rebuild the page that uses it.
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* If backlinks were turned into a plugin, it would need to make a page
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rebuild when its backlinks changed.
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These suggest there should be a way for plugins to have hooks that tweak
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the list of pages to rebuild.
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Which in turn suggests that there should *be* a list of pages to rebuild;
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currently there's not, and the best such an interface could do would be to
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rebuild the pages even if they were already going to be rebuilt for some
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other reason. (See [[optimisations]].)
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It also suggests that plugins will want to examine pages and/or
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[[store_data|plugin_data_storage]] about them to use in the dependency
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calculations. For example, the version plugin would need to store info
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about what pages use it.
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