Subject: [bug#43761] [PATCH v3] gnu: gmsh: Update to 4.6.0.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:05:34 +0200

Hi!

zimoun <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Gmsh bundled METIS 5 released with Apache License 2.0 since upstream commit
> eaff7f6477fe876991615cfa4b5832bd5f12994b.
>
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (gmsh): Update to 4.6.0.
> (origin): Remove snippet about METIS.
> (propagated-inputs): Replace 'opencascade-oce' by 'opencascade-occt'.

[...]

> -      (snippet
> -       ;; Remove non-free METIS code
> -       '(begin
> -          (delete-file-recursively "contrib/Metis")
> -          #t))))

Can we keep this snippet (without the now-obsolete comment), add our
‘metis’ package as an input, and have gmsh use it?

Thanks!

Ludo’.