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diff --git a/doc/patchqueue/index.html_allowed.mdwn b/doc/patchqueue/index.html_allowed.mdwn
index 6290ac3d3..2431b802a 100644
--- a/doc/patchqueue/index.html_allowed.mdwn
+++ b/doc/patchqueue/index.html_allowed.mdwn
@@ -283,6 +283,21 @@ I'll attach an updated and slightly modified version below.
   >>>> Oh, I see, this patch doesn't address wanting to use foo/index.mdwn as 
   >>>> an input page. Hmm. --Ethan
 
+  >>>>> No, it doesn't. I originally also was after that, but after discussing the
+  >>>>> complexities of supporting that with Joey, came up with this simpler scheme
+  >>>>> without many of those issues. It is the output that I primarily care about, anyway,
+  >>>>> and I do, in fact, find the present input file organisation quite nice. The output
+  >>>>> locations just aren't very good for conversion of an existing site to ikiwiki, and do
+  >>>>> make for rather ugly URLs with the .html extensions. (I do often type some URLs
+  >>>>> out of memory, when they're gone from the browser's completion history, and the
+  >>>>> .html makes that more laboursome.)
+
+  >>>>>> I support your decision, but now this wiki page serves two different patches :).
+  >>>>>> Can we split them somehow?
+  >>>>>> What are the complexities involved?
+  >>>>>> I think I overcomplicated it a little with my patch, and Per Bothner's gets 
+  >>>>>> much closer to the heart of it. --Ethan
+
 * This does make the resulting wikis much less browsable directly on the
   filesystem, since `dir` to `dir/index.html` conversion is only handled by web
   servers and so you end up browsing to a directory index all the time.
@@ -392,6 +407,19 @@ Index: linkmap.pm
  	}
 </pre>
 
+> This is probably supposed to be `$mapitems{$item}=urlto($item, $params{destpage});`,
+> which does indeed remove one more `htmlpage` call from the plugins. I can't actually
+> try it: "failed writing to dst/ts.png.ikiwiki-new: Inappropriate ioctl for device".
+
+>> Crazy perl bug that ioctl thing. Worked around now in svn. --[[Joey]]
+
+> After this probable fix, in fact, all uses of htmlpage in the plugins are used to
+> construct an absolute address: the absolute url in most cases, so an `absurl`
+> call could be added to be used instead of htmlpage, and something else in the
+> aggregate plugin (above), that I also think isn't what's wanted:
+> aren't `foo.html` pages also "rendered", so that they get moved as `foo/index.html`?
+> --[[tuomov]]
+
 * `inline.pm` uses htmlpage and `abs2rel` to generate a link, and probably
   needs to be changed to either use `urlto` or to call `beautify_url` like
   htmllink does. This might work: