Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:28:32PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
>>> This reverts commit f8cba3ff4fc6aed0c539700aa47b6e8f4c25c34d.
>>>
>>> It sounds from the comment that this can hopefully be removed now.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/llvm.scm (llvm-without-rtti): Remove it.
>>> * gnu/packages/gl.scm (mesa)[inputs]: Switch to using llvm rather than
>>> llvm-without-rtti.
>>
>> Thanks! If the change doesn't trigger any rebuilds (that is, if the
>> package is really unused), please push!
>>
>> Ideally, the commit message will say which commit made this package
>> unnecessary.
>
> So, my understanding of this is that this change was made to prevent
> some rebuilds a while ago. It does trigger quite a few rebuilds (1120),
> so it'll need pushing to staging/core-updates.
>
> I'll test some of these packages locally, and then probably push it to
> core-updates, as there's some other stuff on staging I'd like to see
> merged to master soonish.

Good news!  This commit is already on 'staging' and should be merged
soonish: 

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=730a4728cc38799f9683bde5a0711ab10d42a9f8

:-)