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-rw-r--r--nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libev/default.nix5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libev/default.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libev/default.nix
index 74aa8133a99f..1ea0615dc234 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libev/default.nix
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/libev/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, static ? false }:
 
+# 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 {
   pname = "libev";
   version="4.33";