[GNC] Disabling Lots Manager

[David T.]

Hello,

Gnucash 4.11 Windows 10

Having struggled once again with the extremely unreliable aspects of the 
Lots Manager, I am resigned to the fact that, while an admirable 
endeavor in concept, the Lots Manager is more trouble than it is worth, 
and leads to books that cannot be considered accurate over the long term.

For the worst of these, see 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798583 regarding how the Lots 
Manager will change RECONCILED GAINS TRANSACTIONS silently. A second 
complaint I have is that if there is a Lot-generated gain transaction in 
the register, deleting this gain transaction ALSO DELETES THE SALE 
TRANSACTION. I can't imagine why this would be considered an appropriate 
linkage to embed in the code, and there's nothing in the register to 
indicate this linkage. I'm also not pleased that I have had frequent 
crashes using the Lot Manager, to the extent that I have had to 
reconcile the same accounts multiple times in a single day. That gets 
old faster than I do.

Today, I'm hoping for two things:

First, I'd like to be able to determine which accounts in my books have 
lots embedded in them, so that I can go through and remove the lots and 
ensure that my books don't get corrupted YET AGAIN by this code. Any 
ideas on how to expose (and root out and eliminate) these lots is welcome.

Second, I would like to find a way to disable the Lots manager entirely 
for my books, so that I don't EVER make the mistaken assumption that the 
Lot Manager is a tool I can use with confidence. I recognize that this 
second ask is unlikely to be possible, but I am nevertheless curious to 
know how complicated it might be to strip out the code altogether in my 
own fork so that it doesn't cause me any more anguish.

David T.