diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 42e30c172991..25ab9669cc34 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1635,6 +1635,11 @@ with haskellLib;
   # https://github.com/hasufell/lzma-static/pull/15
   xz = doJailbreak super.xz;
 
+  ghcup =
+    lib.throwIf pkgs.config.allowAliases
+      "ghcup cannot be used to install the haskell tool chain on NixOS because there is no compatible bindist. Please install ghc etc. via Nix. On non-NixOS systems you can use the ghcup shell installer"
+      super.ghcup;
+
   # This breaks because of version bounds, but compiles and runs fine.
   # Last commit is 5 years ago, so we likely won't get upstream fixed soon.
   # https://bitbucket.org/rvlm/hakyll-contrib-hyphenation/src/master/