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@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ and decided this time it was really needed to implement this feature.
 
 >> (I'm not an ikiwiki committer, opinions may vary.)
 >>
+>>> In my opinion, you're an ikiwiki committer! --[[Joey]]
+>>
 >> This would be easier to review if there weren't a million merges from
 >> master; perhaps either leave a branch as-is, or rebase it, or merge
 >> only at "significant" times like after a release?
@@ -48,3 +50,47 @@ and decided this time it was really needed to implement this feature.
 >>      $untainted{$key} = possibly_foolish_untaint($tainted->{key});
 >>
 >> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> You are fully right about the complex `$config` entries. I'll
+>>> convert this to use what you are suggesting, i.e. what we ended up
+>>> choosing for the `po_slave_languages` setting.
+>>>
+>>> About the merges in this branch: Joey told me once he did not care
+>>> about this; moreover the `--no-merges` git log option makes it
+>>> easy to filter these out. I'll try merging tagged releases only in
+>>> the future, though.
+>>>
+>>> --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>>>> FWIW, I don't care about merge commits etc because I review
+>>>> `git diff ...intrigeri/mirrorlist` -- and if I want to dig deeper
+>>>> into the why of some code, I'll probably checkout the branch and
+>>>> use git blame.
+>>>>
+>>>> I agree with what smcv said, my other concern though is that
+>>>> this is such an edge case, that supporting it just adds clutter.
+>>>> Have to wonder if it wouldn't perhaps be better to do something
+>>>> using the goto plugin and cgiurl, so that the mirror doesn't have
+>>>> to know about the configuration of the other mirror. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>>> I have implemented something using the cgi + goto in my (history
+>>>>> rewrite warning) mirrorlist branch. Please review, please pull.
+>>>>> --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>>>>>> Ping? I've merged 3.20110321 in my `mirrorlist` branch and
+>>>>>> checked it still works properly. --[[intrigeri]]
+
+>>>>> concerning goto/cgiurl, what about having that as the default in
+>>>>> mirrorlist, but keeping ``nousedirs|file:///home/intrigeri/wiki`` and
+>>>>> ``usedirs|http://example.com/wiki`` valid for cgi-less cases?
+>>>>> that would keep typical installation with a clutter-less configuration,
+>>>>> and support more individual setups too.
+>>>>> --[[chrysn]]
+
+>>>>>> I would not mind. On the other hand Joey was concerned about
+>>>>>> cluttering the code to support edge cases, which I fully
+>>>>>> understand. The case you (chrysn) are describing being even
+>>>>>> more specific than the one I was initially talking of, I think
+>>>>>> this should not block the merge of the branch I have been
+>>>>>> proposing. Support for the usecase you are suggesting can
+>>>>>> always be added later if needed. --[[intrigeri]]