Subject: bug#51381: HEIF image format support

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:35:20 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Why do we prefer external-converter for this, instead of having those
> images supported natively?  I thought we wanted to move away of
> ImageMagick dependencies?

We don't want to make Emacs depend on All The C Image Libraries That
Exist.  For obscure formats, seldom used, it's fine to use an external
program (if the user wants to).

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