Oh yep here are some examples where I think this would make sense:
- newsflash: fix adding xdg-open to PATH by kira-bruneau · Pull Request #186982 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
- treewide: inject xdg-open into wrappers as $PATH suffix by ehmry · Pull Request #181171 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
- nodePackages.typescript-language-server: typescript dependecy as fallback by jlesquembre · Pull Request #155855 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
- winetricks: remove wine dependency by vs49688 · Pull Request #144881 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/85700#issuecomment-617438601