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I've been doing some work to reduce the number of assemblies (from outside the Global Assembly Cache (GAC)) we load before posting a loading message. While doing this I discovered that mscorlib doesn't have its GlobalAssemblyCache property set to true.  Why? If you look in "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322" (this directory is the GAC) I see mscorlib.dll.  If I do a gacutil /l mscorlib is not registered.  Why isn't part of the GAC? What is different?

Update: An embarrassing mistake, I got the location of the GAC wrong.  The GAC is found in   %WINDOWS%/Assembly.  However this still begs the question in .NET 1.0/1.1 mscorlib isn't part of the GAC. Why?

With Whidbey it will be.