diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
index 0a5ff76f605f..f5a94b70e1b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ mapAliases {
     };
   }); # added 2024-10-04
   inherit (pkgs) npm-check-updates; # added 2023-08-22
+  npm-merge-driver = throw "'npm-merge-driver' has been removed, since the upstream repo was archived on Aug 11, 2021"; # Added 2025-11-07
   ocaml-language-server = throw "ocaml-language-server was removed because it was abandoned upstream"; # added 2023-09-04
   orval = throw "orval has been removed because it was broken"; # added 2025-03-23
   parcel = throw "parcel has been removed because it was broken"; # added 2025-03-12
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
index 93dc30789725..41ba101d9ee1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
 , "node-gyp-build"
 , "node2nix"
 , "np"
-, "npm-merge-driver"
 , "nrm"
 , "parsoid"
 , "peerflix"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
index d8daeb941a20..522a63354ee8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
@@ -41175,24 +41175,6 @@ in
     bypassCache = true;
     reconstructLock = true;
   };
-  npm-merge-driver = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
-    name = "npm-merge-driver";
-    packageName = "npm-merge-driver";
-    version = "2.3.6";
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/npm-merge-driver/-/npm-merge-driver-2.3.6.tgz";
-      sha512 = "uPjCEWZ93f379zw0AMEgFtZIlpSSnpXc8BEIcs8yYHEZs5Y3d85OZHisLjNhjbYnbdAznxTq+VbyBWAQZDEm9w==";
-    };
-    buildInputs = globalBuildInputs;
-    meta = {
-      description = "git merge driver for automatically merging lockfiles";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/npm/npm-merge-driver#readme";
-      license = "ISC";
-    };
-    production = true;
-    bypassCache = true;
-    reconstructLock = true;
-  };
   nrm = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
     name = "nrm";
     packageName = "nrm";