diff --git a/pkgs/development/beam-modules/default.nix b/pkgs/development/beam-modules/default.nix
index 23649ca76f26..b5a4188a0b2a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/beam-modules/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/beam-modules/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-{ lib, __splicedPackages, erlang }:
+{ lib, pkgs, erlang }:
 
 let
-  pkgs = __splicedPackages;
   inherit (lib) makeExtensible;
 
   lib' = pkgs.callPackage ./lib.nix { };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/beam-modules/lib.nix b/pkgs/development/beam-modules/lib.nix
index 2d93b28cda6b..1b021cf93472 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/beam-modules/lib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/beam-modules/lib.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
-{ __splicedPackages, lib }:
+{ pkgs, lib }:
 
-let
-  pkgs = __splicedPackages;
-in
 rec {
 
   /* Similar to callPackageWith/callPackage, but without makeOverridable
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
index 8fd99172be10..1080f02f6e4d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
@@ -19,11 +19,7 @@ let
         # - adds spliced package sets to the package set
         ({ stdenv, pkgs, perl, callPackage, makeScopeWithSplicing' }: let
           perlPackagesFun = callPackage ../../../top-level/perl-packages.nix {
-            # allow 'perlPackages.override { pkgs = pkgs // { imagemagick = imagemagickBig; }; }' like in python3Packages
-            # most perl packages aren't called with callPackage so it's not possible to override their arguments individually
-            # the conditional is because the // above won't be applied to __splicedPackages and hopefully no one is doing that when cross-compiling
-            pkgs = if stdenv.buildPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform then pkgs.__splicedPackages else pkgs;
-            inherit stdenv;
+            inherit stdenv pkgs;
             perl = self;
           };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 13db753ede4c..9dfde3a30b4a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5393,9 +5393,7 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Security;
   };
 
-  tmuxPlugins = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../misc/tmux-plugins {
-    pkgs = pkgs.__splicedPackages;
-  });
+  tmuxPlugins = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../misc/tmux-plugins { });
 
   tokei = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/tokei {
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Security;
@@ -5756,7 +5754,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   yarn-berry = callPackage ../development/tools/yarn-berry { };
 
-  yarn2nix-moretea = callPackage ../development/tools/yarn2nix-moretea/yarn2nix { pkgs = pkgs.__splicedPackages; };
+  yarn2nix-moretea = callPackage ../development/tools/yarn2nix-moretea/yarn2nix { };
 
   inherit (yarn2nix-moretea)
     yarn2nix
@@ -6463,7 +6461,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   idrisPackages = dontRecurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../development/idris-modules {
     idris-no-deps = haskellPackages.idris;
-    pkgs = pkgs.__splicedPackages;
   });
 
   idris = idrisPackages.with-packages [ idrisPackages.base ] ;
@@ -16947,8 +16944,7 @@ with pkgs;
   openmw-tes3mp = libsForQt5.callPackage ../games/openmw/tes3mp.nix { };
 
   openraPackages_2019 = import ../games/openra_2019 {
-    inherit lib;
-    pkgs = pkgs.__splicedPackages;
+    inherit lib pkgs;
   };
 
   openra_2019 = openraPackages_2019.engines.release;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/splice.nix b/pkgs/top-level/splice.nix
index 3b600c22f60e..e9e1ba02bf81 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/splice.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/splice.nix
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ in
 
   newScope = extra: lib.callPackageWith (pkgsForCall // extra);
 
+  pkgs = if actuallySplice then splicedPackages // { recurseForDerivations = false; } else pkgs;
+
   # prefill 2 fields of the function for convenience
   makeScopeWithSplicing = lib.makeScopeWithSplicing splicePackages pkgs.newScope;
   makeScopeWithSplicing' = lib.makeScopeWithSplicing' { inherit splicePackages; inherit (pkgs) newScope; };