diff --git a/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua b/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua
index dcd066de..378d51cb 100644
--- a/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua
+++ b/lua/rocks/luarocks.lua
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ luarocks.cli = function(args, on_exit, opts)
         lock.wait()
         lock = nio.control.future()
     end
+    opts.env = vim.tbl_deep_extend("force", opts.env or {}, {
+        LUAROCKS_CONFIG = "",
+    })
     local luarocks_cmd = vim.list_extend({
         config.luarocks_binary,
         "--lua-version=" .. constants.LUA_VERSION,
diff --git a/nix/plugin-overlay.nix b/nix/plugin-overlay.nix
index 0f2fa7df..00b1c82d 100644
--- a/nix/plugin-overlay.nix
+++ b/nix/plugin-overlay.nix
@@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ in {
             package.cpath = package.cpath .. ";" .. table.concat(luarocks_cpath, ";")
 
             vim.opt.runtimepath:append(vim.fs.joinpath("${rocks}", "rocks.nvim-scm-1-rocks", "rocks.nvim", "*"))
-
-            --- FIXME: nix somehow propagates the LUAROCKS_CONFIG used to build rocks.nvim to neovim
-            --- See https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks.nvim/issues/148
-            vim.fn.setenv("LUAROCKS_CONFIG", "")
           '';
         wrapRc = true;
         wrapperArgs =