The old forms presumably predates, or were made in ignorance of,
`let inherit`. This way is better style as the scoping as more lexical,
something which Nix can (or might already!) take advantage of.
The PR wasn't good enough yet.
This reverts commit b2a37ceeea8c38ec71447f8dae1e6890a8cf982d, reversing
changes made to 7fa9a1abce623aaf18b22f5dca3fc8a44a494e8d.
The manuals are now evaluated with each derivation in `pkgs` (recursively)
replaced by a fake with path "\${pkgs.path.to.the.attribute}".
It isn't perfect, but it seems to cover a vast majority of use cases.
Caveat: even if the package is reached by a different means,
the path above will be shown and not e.g. `${config.services.foo.package}`.
As before, defaults created by `mkDefault` aren't displayed,
but documentation shouldn't (mostly) be a reason to use that anymore.
Note: t wouldn't be enough to just use `lib.mapAttrsRecursive`,
because derivations are also (special) attribute sets.
For example, this allows writing
nix.package = /nix/store/786mlvhd17xvcp2r4jmmay6jj4wj6b7f-nix-1.10pre4206_896428c;
Also, document types.package in the manual.
Also, when an option definition fails to type-check, print the file
name of the module in which the offending definition occurs, e.g.
error: user-thrown exception: The option value `boot.loader.grub.version' in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' is not a integer.