diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/generic.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/generic.nix
index 1f49c3c23af0..4243ad47a243 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/generic.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 , libtiff, librsvg, libwebp, gconf, libxml2, imagemagick, gnutls, libselinux
 , alsa-lib, cairo, acl, gpm, AppKit, GSS, ImageIO, m17n_lib, libotf
 , sigtool, jansson, harfbuzz, sqlite, nixosTests
-, dontRecurseIntoAttrs, emacsPackagesFor
+, recurseIntoAttrs, emacsPackagesFor
 , libgccjit, targetPlatform, makeWrapper # native-comp params
 , fetchFromSavannah
 , systemd ? null
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ let emacs = stdenv.mkDerivation (lib.optionalAttrs nativeComp {
 
   passthru = {
     inherit nativeComp;
-    pkgs = dontRecurseIntoAttrs (emacsPackagesFor emacs);
+    pkgs = recurseIntoAttrs (emacsPackagesFor emacs);
     tests = { inherit (nixosTests) emacs-daemon; };
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 631ff2c3e596..dcc7db2e2b5e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ mapAliases ({
   emacs28Packages = emacs28.pkgs; # Added 2021-10-04
   emacs28WithPackages = emacs28.pkgs.withPackages; # Added 2021-10-04
   emacsNativeComp = emacs28NativeComp; # Added 2022-06-08
-  emacsPackages = emacs.pkgs; # Added 2020-12-18
   emacsPackagesGen = throw "'emacsPackagesGen' has been renamed to/replaced by 'emacsPackagesFor'"; # Converted to throw 2022-02-22
   emacsPackagesNg = emacs.pkgs; # Added 2019-08-07
   emacsPackagesNgFor = emacsPackagesFor; # Added 2019-08-07
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b65c1b12fa6a..8ccf7e6dcb63 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -27030,6 +27030,9 @@ with pkgs;
     pkgs' = pkgs;  # default pkgs used for bootstrapping the emacs package set
   };
 
+  # This alias should live in aliases.nix but that would cause Hydra not to evaluate/build the packages.
+  emacsPackages = emacs.pkgs;
+
   inherit (gnome) empathy;
 
   enhanced-ctorrent = callPackage ../applications/networking/enhanced-ctorrent { };