diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clojure/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/cl/clojure/package.nix
similarity index 97%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/clojure/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/cl/clojure/package.nix
index eadf0f60b41a..0e4ef2efe6f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/clojure/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/cl/clojure/package.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
   bashNonInteractive,
   fetchurl,
   installShellFiles,
+  # Be careful if you remove this, out-of-tree consumers expect to
+  # be able to override `jdk`.
   jdk,
   rlwrap,
   makeWrapper,
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 25b3fab9f79d..a1e5c624088c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5353,13 +5353,6 @@ with pkgs;
     xeus-cling
     ;
 
-  clojure = callPackage ../development/interpreters/clojure {
-    # set this to an LTS version of java
-    # Be careful if you remove this, out-of-tree consumers expect to
-    # be able to override `jdk`.
-    jdk = jdk21;
-  };
-
   dhall = haskell.lib.compose.justStaticExecutables haskellPackages.dhall;
 
   dhall-bash = haskell.lib.compose.justStaticExecutables haskellPackages.dhall-bash;