removed any attempt to handle ref assemblies via GAC when decompiling #1767
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See the discussion here icsharpcode/ilspy-vscode#45 (comment)
Long story short, searching for ref assemblies in GAC results in no-definition found - Not Supported exception on Mono. This means that we can't decompile into BCL types on Mono. On Windows it "works" - as in, it doesn't crash, but it doesn't find implementation assemblies anyway.
This PR removes any attempt to handle ref assemblies; this means things should always decompile fine, but we won't find implementation assemblies. This is consistent with VS experience where ref assemblies are decompiled instead of implementation assemblies.
It's a super complex topic, and we can improve on that gradually in the future (or maybe VS implementation will improve).