diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index fcbebfae33d..df827d8d469 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -8378,13 +8378,12 @@ let
     };
   };
 
-  LinuxDesktopFiles = buildPerlPackage rec {
+  LinuxDesktopFiles = buildPerlModule rec {
     name = "Linux-DesktopFiles-0.25";
     src = fetchurl {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/T/TR/TRIZEN/${name}.tar.gz";
       sha256 = "60377a74fba90fa465200ee1c7430dbdde69d454d85f9ee101c039803a07e5f5";
     };
-    buildInputs = [ ModuleBuild ];
     meta = {
       homepage = https://github.com/trizen/Linux-DesktopFiles;
       description = "Fast parsing of the Linux desktop files";