diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
index 5e80158d9057..66afb6302593 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 , highlight
 , pygments
 , graphviz
-, texlive
+, texliveMinimal
 , dblatexFull
 , libxslt
 , w3m
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ let
   _enableDeckjsBackend = enableExtraPlugins || enableDeckjsBackend;
   _enableOdfBackend = enableExtraPlugins || enableOdfBackend;
 
+  #
+  # texlive environment
+  #
+  texlive = texliveMinimal.withPackages (ps: [ ps.dvipng ]);
+
   #
   # filters
   #
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8104528427b2..7430470115b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6585,7 +6585,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   asciidoc = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/asciidoc {
     inherit (python3.pkgs) pygments matplotlib numpy aafigure recursivePthLoader;
-    texlive = texlive.combine { inherit (texlive) scheme-minimal dvipng; };
     w3m = w3m-batch;
     enableStandardFeatures = false;
   };