Disabling/Deleting Products in Magento

I need to disable products in Magento as they are currently not available from my manufacturers but I know they will come back next year. If I disable these products, will it create 404 errors?

开发者_如何转开发How do I delete products without creating 404 errors?

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Why not just saying Out of Stock, so you will keep all links?

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There are different ways to disable the product in frontend.
You can refer the following article for more:
http://masteringmagento.com/2010/04/8-and-a-half-reasons-your-magento-products-dont-show-up-in-the-catalog/