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@@ -248,4 +248,20 @@ I've tested it fairly thouroughly. --[[Joey]]
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+
+Even if this is already marked as done, I'd like to suggest an alternative
+solution:
+
+Instead of creating a file that gets checked in into the RCS, the source files
+could be left out and the output files be written as long as there is no
+physical source file (think of a virtual underlay). Something similar would be
+required to implement [[todo/alias directive]], which couldn't be easily done
+by writing to the RCS as the page's contents can change depending on which
+other pages claim it as an alias. --[[chrysn]]
+
+I agree with [[chrysn]]. In fact, is there any good reason that the core tag plugin doesn't do this? The current usability is horrible, to the point that I have gone 2.5 years with Ikiwiki and haven't yet started using tags. -- [[Eric|http://wiki.pdxhub.org/people/eric]]
+
+> See [[todo/transient in-memory pages]] for progress on this. --[[smcv]]
+
 [[!tag done]]