diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7a5b7d37d6ac..a093bca740a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8286,23 +8286,12 @@ let
     inherit stdenv fetchurl pkgconfig x11 xlibs dbus imlib2 freetype;
   };
 
-  gnome = recurseIntoAttrs (import ../desktops/gnome {
-    inherit
-      fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig
-      flex bison popt zlib libxml2 libxslt
-      perl perlXMLParser docbook_xml_dtd_42 docbook_xml_dtd_412
-      docbook_xml_dtd_43
-      gettext x11 libtiff libjpeg libpng gtkLibs xlibs bzip2
-      libcm python dbus dbus_glib ncurses which libxml2Python
-      iconnamingutils openssl hal samba fam libgcrypt libtasn1
-      xmlto docbook2x docbook_xsl intltool enchant isocodes polkit
-      libproxy sqlite;
-  });
-
   gnome26 = import ../desktops/gnome-2.26 pkgs;
 
   gnome28 = import ../desktops/gnome-2.28 pkgs;
 
+  gnome = gnome28;
+
   kde3 = {
 
     kdelibs = import ../desktops/kde-3/kdelibs {