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> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:47:41 +0000
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 07:57:00PM +0000, Phillip Lord wrote:
> > 
> > 3) Currently the "no-deps" version actually includes libXpm. Emacs
> > starts without it, but looks ugly. I would like to no longer special
> > case libXpm and just make the "no-deps" download really include no
> > deps. I think this is reasonable, because this download is now, really
> > special purpose and "with-deps" is the default.
> 
> Do you even really need libXpm? We manage without it on NS and Cairo
> builds by using the built-in functions at src/image.c:4671. Perhaps
> that could be extended to Windows as well?

Emacs supports native image display on Windows, but that is still
experimental.  In time, we could indeed try to get rid of the libXpm
dependency.