diff --git a/gnu/packages/check.scm b/gnu/packages/check.scm
index 55e4cc96ab..d4820d911d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/check.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/check.scm
@@ -2849,16 +2849,13 @@ (define-public python-pyfakefs
 system.  The code under test requires no modification to work with pyfakefs.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))
 
-(define-public python2-pyfakefs
-  (package-with-python2 python-pyfakefs))
-
 ;; This minimal variant is used to avoid a circular dependency between
 ;; python2-importlib-metadata, which requires pyfakefs for its tests, and
 ;; python2-pytest, which requires python2-importlib-metadata.
 (define-public python2-pyfakefs-bootstrap
   (hidden-package
    (package
-     (inherit python2-pyfakefs)
+     (inherit (package-with-python2 python-pyfakefs))
      (name "python2-pyfakefs-bootstrap")
      (native-inputs '())
      (arguments