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27.0.50; Untarring an archive with a keyring.gpg inside

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Message #65 received at 35495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 35495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ueno <at> unixuser.org, federicotedin <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#35495: 27.0.50; Untarring an archive with a keyring.gpg inside
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 18:57:52 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: federicotedin <at> gmail.com,  35495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  ueno <at> unixuser.org
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 11:23:26 -0400
> 
> IOW since we don't have any
> `insert-file-contents-literally-but-please-do-the-coding-system-decoding`,
> I don't think we want a `write-region-literally-but-not-quite`.

The use cases are quite different, so analogies are not necessarily
helpful in designing the new primitive.

But okay, I guess when/if a suitable use case comes up, we can always
change this later.

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