diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
index efaf986a9e54..f8340b1bd227 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, writeText, makeWrapper, libX11, ncurses, libXext
-, libXft, fontconfig, dmenu, conf ? null, patches ? [], extraLibs ? []}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, writeText, libX11, ncurses
+, libXft, conf ? null, patches ? [], extraLibs ? []}:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 
@@ -16,12 +16,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   configFile = optionalString (conf!=null) (writeText "config.def.h" conf);
   preBuild = optionalString (conf!=null) "cp ${configFile} config.def.h";
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
-  buildInputs = [ libX11 ncurses libXext libXft fontconfig ] ++ extraLibs;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ncurses ];
+  buildInputs = [ libX11 libXft ] ++ extraLibs;
 
   installPhase = ''
     TERMINFO=$out/share/terminfo make install PREFIX=$out
-    wrapProgram "$out/bin/st" --prefix PATH : "${dmenu}/bin"
   '';
 
   meta = {