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bug#33587: [PROPOSED] Default to disabling ImageMagick
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#33587: [PROPOSED] Default to disabling ImageMagick |
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Date: |
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 14:40:10 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/3/18 11:08 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> A related alternative would be to lower the priority of the ImageMagick
>> backend. At the moment, visiting eg a png image uses ImageMagick rather
>> than libpng if both are linked in.
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> If this alternative is taken and the user requests scaling, presumably
> the ImageMagick library would need to be used anyway since it can
> scale and libpng can't.
Sure. I mean, make use of ImageMagick require an explicit request, for
uses that might need those features (eww?), rather than just happening
by default like it does now.