diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index dca155e6988d..1c56a00e96c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ self: super: {
   zlib = dontCheck super.zlib;
 
   # Override the obsolete version from Hackage with our more up-to-date copy.
-  nix-paths = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/cabal2nix/nix-paths.nix {};
   cabal2nix = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/cabal2nix/cabal2nix.nix {};
   hackage2nix = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/cabal2nix/hackage2nix.nix {};
   language-nix = self.callPackage ../tools/haskell/cabal2nix/language-nix.nix {};
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/nix-paths.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/nix-paths.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index f6d27857ee3f..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/haskell/cabal2nix/nix-paths.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{ mkDerivation, base, fetchFromGitHub, nix, stdenv }:
-
-mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "nix-paths";
-  version = "1";
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "nixos";
-    repo = "cabal2nix";
-    rev = "c475c17fa5f8dfc16c694fb0264486f94cbf2c5e";
-    sha256 = "0skqdka1ibgwf33b23ibz93g5h6mbv31p1rbqz66j8qgxsvcgrkg";
-  };
-  postUnpack = "sourceRoot+=/${pname}";
-  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base ];
-  libraryToolDepends = [ nix ];
-  homepage = "https://github.com/nixos/cabal2nix#readme";
-  description = "Knowledge of Nix's installation directories";
-  license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-  maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ simons ];
-}