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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ wrong direction. (fixed --[[Joey]] )
 >>>> regardless whether the corresponding page exists or not.
 >>>> --[[David_Riebenbauer]]
 
->>>>> Sorry, I'll try to be clearer: `autoindex` hard-codes that the [[index]] page
+>>>>> Sorry, I'll try to be clearer: `autoindex` hard-codes that the index page
 >>>>> of the entire wiki is the one responsible for storing the page state. That
 >>>>> page isn't responsible for the creation of the tag page, it's just an
 >>>>> arbitrary page that's (more or less) guaranteed to exist. --[[smcv]]
@@ -248,4 +248,23 @@ I've tested it fairly thouroughly. --[[Joey]]
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 [981400177d68a279f485727be3f013e68f0bf691]: http://git.liegesta.at/?p=ikiwiki.git;a=commitdiff;h=981400177d68a279f485727be3f013e68f0bf691 (commitdiff for 981400177d68a279f485727be3f013e68f0bf691)
 
+-------------------
+
+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_pages]] for progress on this. --[[smcv]]
+
 [[!tag done]]