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--- a/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/auto_rebuild_on_template_change.mdwn
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ register dependencies on `page.tmpl`, `inlinepage.tmpl`, etc, as they're
 used. Although, having every page declare an explicit dep on `page.tmpl`
 is perhaps a bit much; might be better to implement a special case for that
 one. Also, having the templates be copied to `destdir` is not desirable.
-(However, if they're not copied, wikilinks to them will be broken. Hmm.)
+In a sense, these template would be like internal pages, except not wiki
+pages, but raw files.
 
 The risk is that a site might have `allowed_attachments` set to
 `templates/*` or `*.tmpl` something like that. I think such a configuration
@@ -34,6 +35,10 @@ suffice.
 (This would also help to clear up the tricky disctinction between
 wikitemplates and in-wiki templates.)
 
+Note also that when using templates from "$srcdir/templates/", `no_includes`
+needs to be set. Currently this is done by the two plugins that use
+such templates, while includes are allowed in `templatedir`.
+
 > But would this require that templates be parseable as wiki pages?  Because that would be a nuisance. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
 
 >> It would be better for them not to be rendered separately at all.
@@ -45,3 +50,12 @@ wikitemplates and in-wiki templates.)
 >>>> need to be treated as wiki pages. (They need to be treated
 >>>> as raw files anyway, because you don't want random users editing them 
 >>>> in the online editor.) --[[Joey]] 
+
+>>>>> Just to be clear, the raw files would not be copied across to the output
+>>>>> directory? -- [[Jon]]
+
+>>>>>> Without modifying ikiwiki, they'd be copied to the output directory as
+>>>>>> (e.g.) http://ikiwiki.info/templates/inlinepage.tmpl; to not copy them,
+>>>>>> it'd either be necessary to make them be internal pages
+>>>>>> (templates/inlinepage._tmpl) or special-case them in some other way.
+>>>>>> --[[smcv]]