[Nix-dev] Emacs 24

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> skribis:

> 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.

Yes, so what about just depending on ImageMagickNotBig?

As I said, we certainly don’t need an ImageMagick that depends on teTeX.

Thanks,
Ludo’.