diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
index 594886149c5..b7ab092bbc0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/redshift/default.nix
@@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pythonPath = [ pygobject3 pyxdg ];
 
   preConfigure = "./bootstrap";
-  postFixup = ''
-    wrapPythonPrograms
-    rm "$out/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache"
-  '';
+
+  postFixup = "wrapPythonPrograms";
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;