diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio.nix b/nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio.nix
index aa3ca549f09a..096152cefe97 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/config/pulseaudio.nix
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ in {
           (drv: drv.override { pulseaudio = overriddenPackage; })
           cfg.extraModules;
         modulePaths = builtins.map
-          (drv: "${drv}/${overriddenPackage.pulseDir}/modules")
+          (drv: "${drv}/lib/pulseaudio/modules")
           # User-provided extra modules take precedence
           (overriddenModules ++ [ overriddenPackage ]);
       in lib.concatStringsSep ":" modulePaths;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/0001-Make-gio-2.0-optional-15.patch b/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/0001-Make-gio-2.0-optional-15.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c087dcd7e7d1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/0001-Make-gio-2.0-optional-15.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-From 72f3fe059f031f24c5ad026cb2fc16318f227c09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Andrew Childs <andrew.childs@bibo.com.ph>
-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:29:58 +0900
-Subject: [PATCH 1/8] Make gio-2.0 optional when gsettings is disabled
-
-Derived from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/654
----
- meson.build | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index d7e468cab..f7adf1413 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ if dbus_dep.found()
-   cdata.set('HAVE_DBUS', 1)
- endif
- 
--gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version : '>= 2.26.0')
-+gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version : '>= 2.26.0', required : false)
- if get_option('gsettings').enabled()
-   assert(gio_dep.found(), 'GSettings support needs glib I/O library (GIO)')
-   cdata.set('HAVE_GSETTINGS', 1)
--- 
-2.35.1
-
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/default.nix
index 760a0a5511bd..5084bd720514 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/pulseaudio/default.nix
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # but use a conventional runtime sysconfdir outside the store
     ./add-option-for-installation-sysconfdir.patch
     # https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/654
-    (./. + "/0001-Make-gio-2.0-optional-${lib.versions.major version}.patch")
+    ./0001-Make-gio-2.0-optional-16.patch
     # TODO (not sent upstream)
     ./0002-Ignore-SCM_CREDS-on-darwin.patch
     ./0003-Ignore-HAVE_CPUID_H-on-aarch64-darwin.patch
@@ -147,20 +147,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ''
   # add .so symlinks for modules to be found under macOS
   + lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
-    for file in $out/${passthru.pulseDir}/modules/*.dylib; do
+    for file in $out/lib/pulseaudio/modules/*.dylib; do
       ln -s "''$file" "''${file%.dylib}.so"
       ln -s "''$file" "$out/lib/pulseaudio/''$(basename ''$file .dylib).so"
     done
   '';
 
-  passthru = {
-    pulseDir =
-      if (lib.versionAtLeast version "16.0") then
-        "lib/pulseaudio"
-      else
-        "lib/pulse-" + lib.versions.majorMinor version;
-  };
-
   meta = {
     description = "Sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems";
     homepage    = "http://www.pulseaudio.org/";