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--- a/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/parse_debian_packages.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ a helpful index page to a small repository, listing all the
 packages, and possibly their descriptions as well, with links to
 download them or their sources.
 
+--Cameron
+
 > It's a good idea, I think there are probably several ways to approach it
 > that would all yeild good, though differing results. Maybe with
 > something like this I'd actually get around to posting ikiwiki debs to
@@ -27,7 +29,17 @@ would then not be picked up until the ikiwiki is recompiled.
 > This could be done by adding a hook to reprepro/whatever that calls
 > ikiwiki --refresh at the end of updating a repo. (I don't
 > remember if reprepro has such hooks; mini-dinstall certianly does.)
-> 
+
+>> reprepro doesn't seem to have one, :( though of course creating a
+>> script to do both would work (but it's not optimal). --Cameron
+
+>>> reprepro has two kind of hooks that could be used. One is called
+>>> whenever a Packages file is changed (normaly used to generate
+>>> Packages.diff files, but it does not need to add new files).
+>>> The other (though only available since 2.1) is called whenever
+>>> a package is added or removed (there is an example in the docs
+>>> for extracting changelogs using this). 
+
 > For ikiwiki to notice that the Packages file outside its tree has
 > changed and things need to be updated, a `needsbuild` hook could be
 > used. This seems very doable.
@@ -44,7 +56,15 @@ automatically.
 > want to use it for a big repo, and I'd ideally want to keep the packages
 > in a different svn repo, pulled in via svn:externals.
 
-Just some thoughts I had, hope it's not too crazy.<br>
---Cameron
+>> I like it too, more than the easier options, why are the most
+>> interesting solutions always the most complicated? ;)
+
+>> Parsing the files sounds like it might require some outside
+>> dependencies, and given the complexity maybe this should be
+>> a separate package from ikiwiki. Is it possible to package
+>> plugins separately? --Cameron
+
+>>> Sure, a plugin is just a perl library so can easily be packaged
+>>> separately.
 
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