diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
index 48c342c1626f..90df4cb2aff0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/onnxruntime/default.nix
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ buildPythonPackage {
       oneDNN
       re2
       onnxruntime.protobuf
+
+      # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/357656 patches the onnx lib to ${pkgs.onnxruntime}/lib
+      # but these files are copied into this package too. If the origional non-python onnxruntime
+      # package is GC-ed, cuda support in this python package will break.
+      # Two options, rebuild onnxruntime twice with the different paths hard-coded, or just hold a runtime
+      # dependency between the two. Option 2, because onnxruntime takes forever to build with cuda support.
+      onnxruntime
     ]
     ++ lib.optionals onnxruntime.passthru.cudaSupport (
       with onnxruntime.passthru.cudaPackages;