explored possible ways to do it, got trapped.

diff --git a/doc/todo/po:_remove_po_files_when_disabling_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/po:_remove_po_files_when_disabling_plugin.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/po:_remove_po_files_when_disabling_plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/po:_remove_po_files_when_disabling_plugin.mdwn
@@ -2,3 +2,10 @@ ikiwiki now has a `disable` hook. Should the po plugin remove the po
 files from the source repository when it has been disabled?
 
 > pot files, possibly, but the po files contain work, so no. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>> I tried to implement this in my `po-disable` branch, but AFAIK, the
+>> current rcs plugins interface provides no way to tell whether a
+>> given file (e.g. a POT file in my case) is under version control;
+>> in most cases, it is not, thanks to .gitignore or similar, but we
+>> can't be sure. So I just can't decide it is needed to call
+>> `rcs_remove` rather than a good old `unlink`. --[[intrigeri]]