[bug] conan remote remove "*" doesn't remove duplicate remotes

[cqc-alec]

Environment details

• Operating System+version: all
• Compiler+version: N/A
• Conan version: 2.0.2
• Python version: 3.10

Steps to reproduce

1. conan remote add (some remote)
2. conan remote add (exactly the same remote -- a warning is printed but no error)
3. conan remote remove "*"
4. conan remote list

The remote remains (only one instance has been removed).

Logs

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[memsharded]

Hi @cqc-alec

Thanks for your report.

I can see that conan remote remove * is not removing repeated remotes names.
But I feel that it shouldn't be possible to add twice the same remote, that should be an error (if force, it should be overwritten), it doesn't make sense that there are 2 remotes with same name and same url. What do you think? Lets fix the original bug? I mean conan remote add .... --force will not add a new remote with same name and same url, but keep the existing one?

[cqc-alec]

Hi @memsharded , I agree, and this was my original expectation: that I could use conan remote add ... --force to add the remote if it didn't exist, and do nothing otherwise (this was the conan 1 behaviour). It was only later I realized that I had a huge list of duplicated remotes!

[memsharded]

Suggesting #13574 fix for next 2.0.3 release