Hi Eelco,

Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> skribis:

> On 13/06/12 16:19, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>> Does anyone
>>> know how Emacs uses these dependencies? What kind of capabilities does one 
>>> gain
>>> by adding support for Imagemagick?
>> 
>> It’s used for image-mode, image-dired, and Doc-view, among others, so it
>> needs to stay IMO.
>
> Since this adds about 400 MB to the closure of Emacs (compared to 23.4), I'm 
> in
> favour of disabling these dependencies by default.

Again, what about using a lighter ImageMagick?

> [The smart people] who want to view PDFs in Emacs

It’s not just about PDFs, but images in general, AIUI (and thus, Gnus
articles, etc.)

Ludo’.

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