diff --git a/pkgs/shells/nushell/default.nix b/pkgs/shells/nushell/default.nix
index 1f510a65a302..7ef45040d12d 100644
--- a/pkgs/shells/nushell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/shells/nushell/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 , Security
 , nghttp2
 , libgit2
-, cargo-edit
 , withExtraFeatures ? true
 , testers
 , nushell
@@ -30,23 +29,10 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
     sha256 = "sha256-PaPj2hbObY4wXubN3Mvr0TlpI13Zgkey90qAgpB0qOo=";
   };
 
-  cargoSha256 = "sha256-4gYafGaQu+UWMQoQ9bf8Cm5rKZhO5ZbKDOitC4HXNdI=";
-  # Since 0.34, nu has an indirect dependency on `zstd-sys` (via `polars` and
-  # `parquet`, for dataframe support), which by default has an impure build
-  # (git submodule for the `zstd` C library). The `pkg-config` feature flag
-  # fixes this, but it's hard to invoke this in the right place, because of
-  # the indirect dependencies. So add a direct dependency on `zstd-sys` here
-  # at the top level, along with this feature flag, to ensure that when
-  # `zstd-sys` is transitively invoked, it triggers a pure build using the
-  # system `zstd` library provided above.
-  depsExtraArgs = { nativeBuildInputs = [ cargo-edit ]; };
-  # cargo add has been merged in to cargo so the above can be removed once 1.62.0 is available in nixpkgs
-  # https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10472
-  cargoUpdateHook = ''
-    cargo add zstd-sys --features pkg-config --offline
-    # write the change to the lockfile
-    cargo update --package zstd-sys --offline
-  '';
+  cargoSha256 = "sha256-KRkPVemgK7RDWJi4TqHNqZLwpwUkx+K15u52Do+pqik=";
+
+  # enable pkg-config feature of zstd
+  cargoPatches = [ ./zstd-pkg-config.patch ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ]
     ++ lib.optionals (withExtraFeatures && stdenv.isLinux) [ python3 ]
diff --git a/pkgs/shells/nushell/zstd-pkg-config.patch b/pkgs/shells/nushell/zstd-pkg-config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..762f1f3f0bcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/shells/nushell/zstd-pkg-config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
+index d4c2ebe3a..bc78478c3 100644
+--- a/Cargo.lock
++++ b/Cargo.lock
+@@ -2641,6 +2641,7 @@ dependencies = [
+  "wax",
+  "which",
+  "windows",
++ "zstd",
+ ]
+ 
+ [[package]]
+@@ -5604,4 +5605,5 @@ checksum = "9fd07cbbc53846d9145dbffdf6dd09a7a0aa52be46741825f5c97bdd4f73f12b"
+ dependencies = [
+  "cc",
+  "libc",
++ "pkg-config",
+ ]
+diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+index 8a9d29562..374ffa153 100644
+--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
++++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ wax = { version =  "0.5.0", features = ["diagnostics"] }
+ rusqlite = { version = "0.28.0", features = ["bundled"], optional = true }
+ sqlparser = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
+ 
++zstd = { version = "*", features = [ "pkg-config" ] }
++
+ [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
+ umask = "2.0.0"
+ users = "0.11.0"