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@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ I can think about reducung the size of my wiki source and making it available on
 > 
 > --[[Joey]]
 
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/optimize-depends author="[[smcv]]"]]
+
 >> I've been looking at optimizing ikiwiki for a site using
 >> [[plugins/contrib/album]] (which produces a lot of pages) and it seems
 >> that checking which pages depend on which pages does take a significant
@@ -88,4 +90,19 @@ I can think about reducung the size of my wiki source and making it available on
 >> rather than a single pagespec. This does turn out to be faster, although
 >> not as much as I'd like. --[[smcv]]
 
-[[!tag wishlist patch]]
+>>> I just wanted to note that there is a whole long discussion of dependencies and pagespecs on the [[todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies]] page. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>>> Yeah, I had a look at that (as the only other mention of `pagespec_merge`).
+>>>> I think I might have solved some of the problems mentioned there,
+>>>> actually - `pagespec_merge` no longer needs to exist in my branch (although
+>>>> I haven't actually deleted it), because the "or" operation is now done in
+>>>> the Perl code, rather than by merging pagespecs and translating. --[[smcv]]
+
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/remove-pagespec-merge author="[[smcv]]"]]
+
+>>>>> I've now added a patch to the end of that branch that deletes
+>>>>> `pagespec_merge` almost entirely (we do need to keep a copy around, in
+>>>>> ikiwiki-transition, but that copy doesn't have to be optimal or support
+>>>>> future features like [[tracking_bugs_with_dependencies]]). --[[smcv]]
+
+[[!tag wishlist patch patch/core]]