diff --git a/pkgs/applications/terminal-emulators/rxvt-unicode/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/terminal-emulators/rxvt-unicode/default.nix
index dada6d1e8545..129cd3817246 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/terminal-emulators/rxvt-unicode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/terminal-emulators/rxvt-unicode/default.nix
@@ -90,8 +90,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     (
       if emojiSupport then
         [
-          # the required patches to libXft are in nixpkgs by default, see
-          # ../../../servers/x11/xorg/overrides.nix
           (fetchPatchFromAUR {
             name = "enable-wide-glyphs.patch";
             package = "rxvt-unicode-truecolor-wide-glyphs";