Remove unused flag from standalone LST

[VourMa]

This is a small PR to clean unused code in the standalone of LST. These changes do not affect the CMSSW part, and the standalone part has been tested and gives identical results.

CMSSW

Standalone

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cms-bot internal usage

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+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-49751/47337

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A new Pull Request was created by @VourMa for master.

It involves the following packages:

• RecoTracker/LSTCore (reconstruction)

@Moanwar, @cmsbuild, @jfernan2, @mandrenguyen, @srimanob can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@GiacomoSguazzoni, @VinInn, @VourMa, @dgulhan, @elusian, @felicepantaleo, @gpetruc, @mmasciov, @mmusich, @mtosi, @rovere this is something you requested to watch as well.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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[jfernan2]

please test

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+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 28KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-5462cd/50491/summary.html
COMMIT: ad706af
CMSSW: CMSSW_16_1_X_2026-01-09-1300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/49751/50491/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 5 differences found in the comparisons
• Reco comparison had 4 failed jobs
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 55
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4532332
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 14
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4532298
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 54 files compared)
• Checked 235 log files, 208 edm output root files, 55 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[jfernan2]

+1

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @sextonkennedy, @ftenchini, @mandrenguyen (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)