diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/network_cmds/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/network_cmds/default.nix
index 367c0f50d038..600571f22256 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/network_cmds/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/network_cmds/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 { lib, appleDerivation, xcbuildHook, stdenv
-, libressl_3_4, Librpcsvc, xnu, libpcap, developer_cmds }:
+, Librpcsvc, xnu, libpcap, developer_cmds }:
 
 appleDerivation {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ xcbuildHook ];
-  buildInputs = [ libressl_3_4 xnu Librpcsvc libpcap developer_cmds ];
+  buildInputs = [ xnu Librpcsvc libpcap developer_cmds ];
 
   # Work around error from <stdio.h> on aarch64-darwin:
   #     error: 'TARGET_OS_IPHONE' is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Werror,-Wundef-prefix=TARGET_OS_]
@@ -12,15 +12,13 @@ appleDerivation {
   # "spray" requires some files that aren't compiling correctly in xcbuild.
   # "rtadvd" seems to fail with some missing constants.
   # "traceroute6" and "ping6" require ipsec which doesn't build correctly
+  # "unbound" doesn’t build against supported versions of OpenSSL or LibreSSL
   patchPhase = ''
     substituteInPlace network_cmds.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj \
       --replace "7294F0EA0EE8BAC80052EC88 /* PBXTargetDependency */," "" \
       --replace "7216D34D0EE89FEC00AE70E4 /* PBXTargetDependency */," "" \
       --replace "72CD1D9C0EE8C47C005F825D /* PBXTargetDependency */," "" \
-      --replace "7216D2C20EE89ADF00AE70E4 /* PBXTargetDependency */," ""
-  '' + lib.optionalString stdenv.isAarch64 ''
-    # "unbound" does not build on aarch64
-    substituteInPlace network_cmds.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj \
+      --replace "7216D2C20EE89ADF00AE70E4 /* PBXTargetDependency */," "" \
       --replace "71D958C51A9455A000C9B286 /* PBXTargetDependency */," ""
   '';