diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/updater-emacs.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/updater-emacs.nix
index f527e64f0885..824567318f22 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/updater-emacs.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/updater-emacs.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ let
 in pkgs.mkShell {
   packages = [
     pkgs.git
-    pkgs.nix
     pkgs.bash
     pkgs.nix-prefetch-git
     pkgs.nix-prefetch-hg