diff --git a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
index 91870a70c1..29cf6720b3 100644
--- a/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
+++ b/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 with import <nix/config.nix>;
 
-# Argh, this thing is duplicated (more-or-less) in Nixpkgs.  Need to
-# find a way to combine them.
-
 {system ? builtins.currentSystem, url, outputHash ? "", outputHashAlgo ? "", md5 ? "", sha1 ? "", sha256 ? ""}:
 
 assert (outputHash != "" && outputHashAlgo != "")