I am using N2CMS to manage the content of my site without using the page routing from N2. Hence when I edit a piece of content, it's quite useless when N2 asks me: "Update links leading to..." "Add permanent redirect at previous URL?". Can I disable this behaviour?
Converting Page into Part is inherently bad idea. It may be temporary fix for the problem you have, but it will bounce back at you in a bad way.
Instead, you can do this
Turn LinkTracker off in web.config
linkTracker enabled="false" permanentRedirectEnabled="false"
Copy CommandFactory.cs from N2 Source into your solution, and rename it to MyCommandFactory.cs. Add Service replacement attribute
[Service(typeof(ICommandFactory), Replaces = typeof(CommandFactory))]
In a constructor, change this line
updateReferences = new MyUpdateReferencesCommand();
Write your own empty Update reference command class
public class MyUpdateReferencesCommand : UpdateReferencesCommand
{
public override void Process(CommandContext state)
{
}
}