kapp flip flops betweek gk scoping and non scoping while using `--dangerous-allow-empty-list-of-resources`

[Praveen Rewar]

What steps did you take:
I have a Gitops system where we deploy resources from files using kapp. We just use kapp deploy to deploy and delete resources, and hence we have to use the --dangerous-allow-empty-list-of-resources flag when all files are removed.

$ kapp deploy -a test -f examples/simple-app/config-1.yml
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// Deployment and Service Created
$ kapp deploy -a test -f empty-dir --dangerous-allow-empty-list-of-resources
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// Deployment and Service deleted. 

What happened:
After the above two commands are run, kapp removes the usedGKs list from the meta ConfigMap. Due to this, the next time kapp deploy is run, kapp doesn't use GK scoping because it thinks that this is an old app which didn't have gk scoping enabled.

What did you expect:
I expected kapp to continue scope the listing to the GKs from the resources I am trying to deploy.

Anything else you would like to add:

Environment:

• kapp version (use kapp --version):
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release):
• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version)

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