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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, xz, coreutils ? null }:
 
+# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
+# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
+# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
+# files.
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "diffutils-3.7";