diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index a63774f464..8ef4920981 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ class CurlDownloadStrategy < AbstractDownloadStrategy
       with_system_path { buffered_write("bunzip2") }
     when :gzip, :bzip2, :compress, :tar
       # Assume these are also tarred
-      # TODO check if it's really a tar archive
       with_system_path { safe_system 'tar', 'xf', tarball_path }
       chdir
     when :xz