2 files changed, 7 insertions, 63 deletions

diff --git a/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/Flavor.java b/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/Flavor.java
index 93ca0a77806..dd33cd58d1d 100644
--- a/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/Flavor.java
+++ b/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/Flavor.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ public class Flavor {
     private final Type type;
     private final double bandwidth;
     private final boolean retired;
-    private List<Flavor> replacesFlavors;
 
     /** The hardware resources of this flavor */
     private NodeResources resources;
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ public class Flavor {
                                            flavorConfig.fastDisk() ? NodeResources.DiskSpeed.fast : NodeResources.DiskSpeed.slow);
         this.bandwidth = flavorConfig.bandwidth();
         this.retired = flavorConfig.retired();
-        this.replacesFlavors = new ArrayList<>();
     }
 
     /** Creates a *node* flavor from a node resources spec */
@@ -51,7 +49,6 @@ public class Flavor {
         this.type = Type.DOCKER_CONTAINER;
         this.bandwidth = 1;
         this.retired = false;
-        this.replacesFlavors = List.of();
         this.resources = resources;
     }
 
@@ -94,54 +91,15 @@ public class Flavor {
     /** Convenience, returns getType() == Type.DOCKER_CONTAINER */
     public boolean isDocker() { return type == Type.DOCKER_CONTAINER; }
 
-    /**
-     * Returns the canonical name of this flavor - which is the name which should be used as an interface to users.
-     * The canonical name of this flavor is:
-     * <ul>
-     *   <li>If it replaces one flavor, the canonical name of the flavor it replaces
-     *   <li>If it replaces multiple or no flavors - itself
-     * </ul>
-     *
-     * The logic is that we can use this to capture the gritty details of configurations in exact flavor names
-     * but also encourage users to refer to them by a common name by letting such flavor variants declare that they
-     * replace the canonical name we want. However, if a node replaces multiple names, we have no basis for choosing one
-     * of them as the canonical, so we return the current as canonical.
-     */
     public String canonicalName() {
-        return isCanonical() ? name : replacesFlavors.get(0).canonicalName();
+        return name;
     }
     
-    /** Returns whether this is a canonical flavor */
-    public boolean isCanonical() {
-        return replacesFlavors.size() != 1;
-    }
-
     /**
-     * The flavors this (directly) replaces.
-     * This is immutable if this is frozen, and a mutable list otherwise.
-     */
-    public List<Flavor> replaces() { return replacesFlavors; }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns whether this flavor satisfies the requested flavor, either directly
-     * (by being the same), or by directly or indirectly replacing it
+     * Returns whether this flavor satisfies the requested flavor
      */
     public boolean satisfies(Flavor flavor) {
-        if (this.equals(flavor)) {
-            return true;
-        }
-        if (this.retired) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        for (Flavor replaces : replacesFlavors)
-            if (replaces.satisfies(flavor))
-                return true;
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    /** Irreversibly freezes the content of this */
-    public void freeze() {
-        replacesFlavors = List.copyOf(replacesFlavors);
+        return this.equals(flavor);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/NodeFlavors.java b/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/NodeFlavors.java
index 5dbfc413de4..a76c50702c6 100644
--- a/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/NodeFlavors.java
+++ b/config-provisioning/src/main/java/com/yahoo/config/provision/NodeFlavors.java
@@ -68,25 +68,11 @@ public class NodeFlavors {
         for (FlavorsConfig.Flavor flavorConfig : config.flavor()) {
             flavors.put(flavorConfig.name(), new Flavor(flavorConfig));
         }
-        // Second pass, set flavorReplacesConfig to point to correct flavor.
-        for (FlavorsConfig.Flavor flavorConfig : config.flavor()) {
-            Flavor flavor = flavors.get(flavorConfig.name());
-            for (FlavorsConfig.Flavor.Replaces flavorReplacesConfig : flavorConfig.replaces()) {
-                if (! flavors.containsKey(flavorReplacesConfig.name())) {
-                    throw new IllegalStateException("Replaces for " + flavor.name() + 
-                                                    " pointing to a non existing flavor: " + flavorReplacesConfig.name());
-                }
-                flavor.replaces().add(flavors.get(flavorReplacesConfig.name()));
-            }
-            flavor.freeze();
-        }
-        // Third pass, ensure that retired flavors have a replacement
+
+        // Ensure that retired flavors have a replacement
         for (Flavor flavor : flavors.values()) {
-            if (flavor.isRetired() && !hasReplacement(flavors.values(), flavor)) {
-                throw new IllegalStateException(
-                        String.format("Flavor '%s' is retired, but has no replacement", flavor.name())
-                );
-            }
+            if (flavor.isRetired() && !hasReplacement(flavors.values(), flavor))
+                throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("Flavor '%s' is retired, but has no replacement", flavor.name()));
         }
         return flavors.values();
     }