[Nix-dev] Emacs 24

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:33:55 +0200, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi Ludo,
> 
>  > [ImageMagick] is used for image-mode, image-dired, and Doc-view,
>  > among others, so it needs to stay IMO.
> 
> are you sure that this information is accurate? I just built an Emacs24
> without the ImageMagick dependency, and still all these features seem to
> work fine.
> 
> How about this: we remove those additional dependencies that were added
> relative to Emacs23, and then we wait for someone to speak up, saying
> that there is an actual use case that doesn't work anymore? 

I like to have previews of (at least) images in emacs. I'm not sure
whether imagemagickBIG is needed for that.

If I'm the only one, I'm fine with building myself, but of course would
prefer binary packages.

What do you think of emacs24 + emacs24BIG?

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