diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker-miners.nix b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker-miners.nix
index d5d42cee9f8b..ba896042ac34 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker-miners.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker-miners.nix
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@
 
     systemd.packages = [ pkgs.tracker-miners ];
 
-    services.gnome.tracker.subcommandPackages = [ pkgs.tracker-miners ];
-
   };
 
 }
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker.nix b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker.nix
index 45b679571c70..a00b5fc6104e 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/desktops/gnome/tracker.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ in
     maintainers = lib.teams.gnome.members;
   };
 
+  imports = [
+    (lib.mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "gnome" "tracker" "subcommandPackages" ] ''
+      This option is broken since 3.7 and since 3.8 tracker (tinysparql) no longer expect
+      CLI to be extended by external projects, note that tracker-miners (localsearch) now
+      provides its own CLI tool.
+    '')
+  ];
+
   ###### interface
 
   options = {
@@ -26,15 +34,6 @@ in
         '';
       };
 
-      subcommandPackages = lib.mkOption {
-        type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.package;
-        default = [ ];
-        internal = true;
-        description = ''
-          List of packages containing tracker3 subcommands.
-        '';
-      };
-
     };
 
   };
@@ -50,17 +49,6 @@ in
 
     systemd.packages = [ pkgs.tracker ];
 
-    environment.variables = {
-      TRACKER_CLI_SUBCOMMANDS_DIR =
-        let
-          subcommandPackagesTree = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
-            name = "tracker-with-subcommands-${pkgs.tracker.version}";
-            paths = [ pkgs.tracker ] ++ cfg.subcommandPackages;
-          };
-        in
-        "${subcommandPackagesTree}/libexec/tracker3";
-    };
-
   };
 
 }