Continuing the discussion from The papercut thread - post your small annoyances/confusions here:
There was talk in the papercut thread about with being bad practice, which from an abstract viewpoint I agree with. One of the most common use cases for with are package lists.
packages = with pkgs; [ curl htop vim ...];
The use of with here is not very nice because I cannot be sure that every package is taken out of pkgs. But using inherit and a let bind (as seen in the linked thread) would be very tedious because I would write every package name twice.
We don’t have that when specifying attribute sets. There I can do
options = { inherit (my-config) color height extraPackages };
or something … But
packages = [inherit (pkgs) htop curl vim ...];
is obviously a syntax error. Is there a nice way to declare the list I want with only once writing pkgs and only once writing the package names?