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Odd failure to deduce a constraint

Using a type family to build a compound constraint that includes several constraints produced by applying another type family results in a type checker error like,

Could not deduce (ConFun l a, ConFun l b)
      arising from a use of ‘bar’
    from the context (ConFun l a, ConFun l b)
      bound by the type signature for
                 baz :: (ConFun l a, ConFun l b) => Proxy l -> HList '[a, b] -> ()

An example program is given at, https://gist.github.com/acowley/a001bd092599b5914bad

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Version 7.8.3
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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