Re: using libmagic in Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

    > You're right; but the point is that this is used in very specific
    > features, not in something general and basic such as find-file.

    My intended use of libmagic is as a sidekick to magic-mode-alist, so
    very much used by find-file.

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.