diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/parallel/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/parallel/wrapper.nix
index 0240f1ac9e9e..b798a1acea22 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/parallel/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/parallel/wrapper.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
-{ lib, runCommand, makeWrapper, parallel, perlPackages
+{ lib, symlinkJoin, makeWrapper, parallel, perlPackages
 , extraPerlPackages ? with perlPackages; [ DBI DBDPg DBDSQLite DBDCSV TextCSV ]
 , willCite ? false }:
 
-runCommand "parallel-full" { nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ]; } ''
-  mkdir -p $out/bin
-  makeWrapper ${parallel}/bin/parallel $out/bin/parallel \
-    --set PERL5LIB "${perlPackages.makeFullPerlPath extraPerlPackages}" \
-    ${lib.optionalString willCite "--add-flags --will-cite"}
-''
+symlinkJoin {
+  name = "parallel-full-${parallel.version}";
+  inherit (parallel) pname version meta outputs;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+  paths = [ parallel ];
+  postBuild = ''
+    ${lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" (output: "ln -s --no-target-directory ${parallel.${output}} \$${output}") (lib.remove "out" parallel.outputs)}
+
+    rm $out/bin/parallel
+    makeWrapper ${parallel}/bin/parallel $out/bin/parallel \
+      --set PERL5LIB "${perlPackages.makeFullPerlPath extraPerlPackages}" \
+      ${lib.optionalString willCite "--add-flags --will-cite"}
+  '';
+}