diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
index 79495d4e9ac2..f8476a2f1821 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/tensorflow/bin.nix
@@ -1,40 +1,44 @@
 {
-  stdenv,
   lib,
-  fetchurl,
+  stdenv,
   buildPythonPackage,
-  isPy3k,
-  astor,
+  fetchurl,
+
+  # buildInputs
+  llvmPackages,
+
+  # build-system
+  distutils,
+
+  # dependencies
+  ml-dtypes,
+  absl-py,
+  astunparse,
+  flatbuffers,
   gast,
   google-pasta,
-  wrapt,
+  grpcio,
+  h5py,
+  libclang,
   numpy,
-  six,
-  termcolor,
+  opt-einsum,
   packaging,
   protobuf,
-  absl-py,
-  grpcio,
-  mock,
-  scipy,
-  distutils,
-  wheel,
-  jax,
-  ml-dtypes,
-  opt-einsum,
-  tensorflow-estimator-bin,
+  requests,
+  six,
   tensorboard,
+  termcolor,
+  typing-extensions,
+  wrapt,
+  isPy3k,
+  mock,
+
   config,
   cudaSupport ? config.cudaSupport,
   cudaPackages,
   zlib,
   python,
   addDriverRunpath,
-  astunparse,
-  flatbuffers,
-  h5py,
-  llvmPackages,
-  typing-extensions,
 }:
 
 # We keep this binary build for three reasons:
@@ -50,7 +54,6 @@ let
   inherit (cudaPackages) cudatoolkit cudnn;
 
   isCudaJetson = cudaSupport && cudaPackages.cudaFlags.isJetsonBuild;
-  isCudaX64 = cudaSupport && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64;
 in
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "tensorflow" + lib.optionalString cudaSupport "-gpu";
@@ -68,38 +71,36 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ llvmPackages.openmp ];
 
+  build-system = [
+    distutils
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs =
+    lib.optionals cudaSupport [ addDriverRunpath ]
+    ++ lib.optionals isCudaJetson [ cudaPackages.autoAddCudaCompatRunpath ];
+
   dependencies = [
+    absl-py
     astunparse
     flatbuffers
-    typing-extensions
-    distutils
+    gast
+    google-pasta
+    grpcio
+    h5py
+    libclang
+    ml-dtypes
+    numpy
+    opt-einsum
     packaging
     protobuf
-    numpy
-    scipy
-    (if isCudaX64 then jax else ml-dtypes)
-    termcolor
-    grpcio
+    requests
     six
-    astor
-    absl-py
-    gast
-    opt-einsum
-    google-pasta
-    wrapt
-    tensorflow-estimator-bin
     tensorboard
-    h5py
+    termcolor
+    typing-extensions
+    wrapt
   ] ++ lib.optional (!isPy3k) mock;
 
-  build-system =
-    [
-      distutils
-      wheel
-    ]
-    ++ lib.optionals cudaSupport [ addDriverRunpath ]
-    ++ lib.optionals isCudaJetson [ cudaPackages.autoAddCudaCompatRunpath ];
-
   preConfigure = ''
     unset SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
 
@@ -113,28 +114,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       mv "$f" "$(sed -E 's/(nv[0-9]+)\.0*([0-9]+)/\1.\2/' <<< "$f")"
     done
 
-    wheel unpack --dest unpacked ./*.whl
-    rm ./*.whl
-    (
-      cd unpacked/tensorflow*
-      # Adjust dependency requirements:
-      # - Relax flatbuffers, gast, protobuf, tensorboard, and tensorflow-estimator version requirements that don't match what we have packaged
-      # - The purpose of python3Packages.libclang is not clear at the moment and we don't have it packaged yet
-      # - keras and tensorlow-io-gcs-filesystem will be considered as optional for now.
-      # - numpy was pinned to fix some internal tests: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/60216
-      sed -i *.dist-info/METADATA \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: flatbuffers/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: gast/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: keras/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: libclang/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: protobuf/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: tensorboard/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: tensorflow-estimator/d" \
-        -e "/Requires-Dist: tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem/d" \
-        -e "s/Requires-Dist: numpy (.*)/Requires-Dist: numpy/"
-    )
-    wheel pack ./unpacked/tensorflow*
-
     popd
   '';