Frustrations about splicing

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While we’re at it, we could even improve the API a bit and do this:

{
  pkgsHostHost,
  pkgsBuildHost,
  lib,
}:

pkgsBuildHost.stdenv.mkDerivation {
  deps.buildHost = {
    inherit (pkgsBuildHost)
      meson
      ninja
      ;
  ];
  deps.hostHost = {
    inherit (pkgsHostHost) libfoo;
  };

  postInstall = ''
     ${lib.getExe pkgsBuildHost.tool} $out
  '';
}

as lists are notoriously hard to override when you attempt to do anything but append/prepend.

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