# Objective
Fixes#10444
Currently manually removing an asset prevents it from being reloaded
while there are still active handles. Doing so will result in a panic,
because the storage entry has been marked as "empty / None" but the ID
is still assumed to be active by the asset server.
Patterns like `images.remove() -> asset_server.reload()` and
`images.remove() -> images.insert()` would fail if the handle was still
alive.
## Solution
Most of the groundwork for this was already laid in Bevy Asset V2. This
is largely just a matter of splitting out `remove` into two separate
operations:
* `remove_dropped`: remove the stored asset, invalidate the internal
Assets entry (preventing future insertions with the old id), and recycle
the id
* `remove_still_alive`: remove the stored asset, but leave the entry
otherwise untouched (and dont recycle the id).
`remove_still_alive` and `insert` can be called any number of times (in
any order) for an id until `remove_dropped` has been called, which will
invalidate the id.
From a user-facing perspective, there are no API changes and this is non
breaking. The public `Assets::remove` will internally call
`remove_still_alive`. `remove_dropped` can only be called by the
internal "handle management" system.
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## Changelog
- Fix a bug preventing `Assets::remove` from blocking future inserts for
a specific `AssetIndex`.
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