Hugo: AlternativeOutputFormats generates RSS links when disableKinds=["RSS"] is set

[gbirke]

I've set disableKinds = [ "taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm", "RSS", "sitemap" ]

I followed the instructions in https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4427#issuecomment-366760534 and used

{{ range .AlternativeOutputFormats -}}
    <link rel="{{ .Rel }}" type="{{ .MediaType.Type }}" href="{{ .Permalink | safeURL }}">
{{ end -}}

in my template. I'd have expected .AlternativeOutputFormats to be empty, but the following RSS link was still generated:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss" href="http://localhost:1313/index.xml">

Is this a bug or do I have to set something else to avoid generating RSS links?

I'm using Hugo 0.41 on Mac OS X

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[gbirke]

I can still reproduce this bug in Hugo 0.49 on Mac OS X. The only change I have now is a weirdly escaped type attribute:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss&#43;xml" href="http://lebenplusplus.de/index.xml">

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[gbirke]

The bug is still present in Hug 0.54.0 on Mac OS X.

[gbirke]

The behavior is still present in Hugo 0.55, tested both on macOS and Linux, so it's not platform-dependent.

But there is a new behavior - the deprecated {{ if .RSSLink }} syntax now also generates an RSS link when RSS is disables via disableKinds.

I've experimented some more and found the following patten: disableKinds is independent from the outputs settings. disableKinds suppresses the generation of the files, but does not affect the generated outputs, so RSS is still part of .AlternativeOutputFormats. If I set [outputs] to home=["HTML"], neither the RSS link nor the RSS file are generated. I think the opposite should also be true: when AlternativeOutputFormats contains RSS, the .AlternativeOutputFormats variable should not contain RSS, even if set explicitly in [outputs]

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[gbirke]

The issue still persists with Hugo 0.57:

config.toml contains

disableKinds = [ "taxonomy", "taxonomyTerm", "RSS", "sitemap" ]

head.html contains
`` {{ with .OutputFormats.Get "rss" -}} {{ printf` .Rel .MediaType.Type .Permalink $.Site.Title | safeHTML }}
{{ end -}}
````

Expected result: Link is not printed

Actual result: Link is printed.

[Teknomancer]

This issue still persists with Hugo 0.62.

Is there a "clean" / suggested way of handling this?

[bep]

I will fix this in #6738 -- but you should really look into how to configure what output formats to produce.