[chaley]

As the person who wrote the original code to do renames etc, I can safely say that changing calibre to take VLs into account is quite hard. It isn't something I am interested in doing. If someone really wants that behavior then they are welcome to implement it.

However, if the assembled multitudes (including Kovid) agree then I can remove the options (grey them out) in the tag browser to do renames etc if there is a VL in force. This would prevent someone doing things that they think apply to the VL at the cost of having to turn off the VL if s/he really wants to do it.