Re: using libmagic in Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

    > Depending on libmagic is too much price to pay for saving a small
    > amount of work.  It's better to do the small amount of work needed to
    > recognize the few file types we want to recognize, using the existing
    > mechanisms.

    I'd rather let other people do this work.  That's why libmagic
    makes a lot of sense.

It's a small amount of work, and the burden of distributing and using
libmagic will be a persistant annoyance.