diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 1b0bc000df7..3d4043a73a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -1696,4 +1696,8 @@ self: super: {
   # https://github.com/jswebtools/language-ecmascript-analysis/issues/1
   language-ecmascript-analysis = doJailbreak super.language-ecmascript-analysis;
 
+  # Too strict bounds on optparse-applicative
+  # https://github.com/faylang/fay/pull/474
+  fay = doJailbreak super.fay;
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
index e2a7e4fd0bd..12b0a5d9731 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix.yaml
@@ -5194,18 +5194,9 @@ broken-packages:
   - FastxPipe
   - fathead-util
   - fault-tree
-  - fay
-  - fay-base
   - fay-builder
-  - fay-dom
-  - fay-geoposition
   - fay-hsx
-  - fay-jquery
-  - fay-ref
   - fay-simplejson
-  - fay-text
-  - fay-uri
-  - fay-websockets
   - fb-persistent
   - fbmessenger-api
   - fbrnch