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“r-minimal” retains no reference to “which”

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28157: “r-minimal” retains no
 reference to “which”
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:29:53 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
[…]
>> Normally the grafting code replaces all the store references, unless the
>> reference is somehow obfuscated (which would be surprising here.)
>
> Right.  In the case of R, the environment for a package is serialized to
> a possibly compressed data file (.Rdb) with an index (.Rdx).
> “Sys.which” is part of the “base” package and I cannot find a plain text
> reference to “bin/which” in the binaries for “base”.
>
> I don’t know if we can (or should) disable compression for Rdb files.

If we need to do that I think it should happen in
“src/library/base/makebasedb.R”.  This file is used to create the base
library and it calls saveRDS with “compressed = TRUE” by default.

-- 
Ricardo

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