On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:15:31AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>On 2020-03-02, Peter N. M. Hansteen <peter@bsdly.net> wrote:
>> I was thinking of the probably quite unlikely event that somebody who wants this
>> comes up with an actually reproducible way that could be turned into an otherwise
>> unremarkable make target.
>
>From experience with other generated files: it won't get used by
>everyone who updates the faq, meaning that it's another thing that
>somebody<tm> has to watch out for and fix it.
>
>IMHO the only way to fix this is to convert the faq to some other
>format that is used to generate a variety of output files (such that
>the html files aren't stored in the repository, only the "input"
>files, so there's no chance of getting it wrong). And *that* has
>enough implications that I don't think it will work well either.
You're right, but I wish you weren't!
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