diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/dotnet.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/dotnet.section.md
index 7987aa41636c..7466c8cdc228 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/dotnet.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/dotnet.section.md
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ buildDotnetGlobalTool {
 
   nugetSha256 = "sha256-ZG2HFyKYhVNVYd2kRlkbAjZJq88OADe3yjxmLuxXDUo=";
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     homepage = "https://cmd.petabridge.com/index.html";
     changelog = "https://cmd.petabridge.com/articles/RELEASE_NOTES.html";
-    license = licenses.unfree;
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    license = lib.licenses.unfree;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/go.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/go.section.md
index 7f151c76129f..369eb88d331f 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/go.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/go.section.md
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ pet = buildGoModule rec {
 
   vendorHash = "sha256-ciBIR+a1oaYH+H1PcC8cD8ncfJczk1IiJ8iYNM+R6aA=";
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go";
     homepage = "https://github.com/knqyf263/pet";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ kalbasit ];
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ kalbasit ];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/idris.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/idris.section.md
index 447a3e7bb8a3..e30a849dd456 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/idris.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/idris.section.md
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ build-idris-package  {
     hash = "sha256-h28F9EEPuvab6zrfeE+0k1XGQJGwINnsJEG8yjWIl7w=";
   };
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Idris YAML lib";
     homepage = "https://github.com/Heather/Idris.Yaml";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.brainrape ];
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.brainrape ];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/javascript.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/javascript.section.md
index 5d2a6413e104..4dc207f79847 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/javascript.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/javascript.section.md
@@ -184,11 +184,11 @@ buildNpmPackage rec {
 
   NODE_OPTIONS = "--openssl-legacy-provider";
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "A modern web UI for various torrent clients with a Node.js backend and React frontend";
     homepage = "https://flood.js.org";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Only;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ winter ];
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ winter ];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/lua.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/lua.section.md
index 23c40409eaa0..136c7194e5cd 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/lua.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/lua.section.md
@@ -193,10 +193,10 @@ luaposix = buildLuarocksPackage {
   disabled = (luaOlder "5.1") || (luaAtLeast "5.4");
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ bit32 lua std_normalize ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix/";
     description = "Lua bindings for POSIX";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ vyp lblasc ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ vyp lblasc ];
     license.fullName = "MIT/X11";
   };
 };
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/maven.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/maven.section.md
index b86733a75898..2ec419e010eb 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/maven.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/maven.section.md
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ maven.buildMavenPackage rec {
       --add-flags "-jar $out/share/jd-cli/jd-cli.jar"
   '';
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Simple command line wrapper around JD Core Java Decompiler project";
     homepage = "https://github.com/intoolswetrust/jd-cli";
-    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ majiir ];
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ majiir ];
   };
 }:
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/ocaml.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/ocaml.section.md
index cbdc64bf5dd3..4f3b6e0264f7 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/ocaml.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/ocaml.section.md
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ buildDunePackage rec {
     hash = "sha256-d5/3KUBAWRj8tntr4RkJ74KWW7wvn/B/m1nx0npnzyc=";
   };
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/flowtype/ocaml-wtf8";
     description = "WTF-8 is a superset of UTF-8 that allows unpaired surrogates.";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.eqyiel ];
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.eqyiel ];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
index 4938d3c96616..fa7f3eddf72c 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     hypothesis
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/releases/tag/${version}";
     description = "Framework for writing tests";
     homepage = "https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest";
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ domenkozar lovek323 madjar lsix ];
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ domenkozar lovek323 madjar lsix ];
   };
 }
 ```
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     python-daemon
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     # ...
   };
 }
@@ -899,12 +899,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     "toolz.dicttoolz"
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/releases/tag/${version}";
     homepage = "https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz";
     description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
   };
 }
 ```
@@ -1034,12 +1034,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pytest
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/blaze/datashape/releases/tag/${version}";
     homepage = "https://github.com/ContinuumIO/datashape";
     description = "A data description language";
-    license = licenses.bsd2;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
   };
 }
 ```
@@ -1084,12 +1084,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     libxslt
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/lxml/lxml/releases/tag/lxml-${version}";
     description = "Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries";
     homepage = "https://lxml.de";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ sjourdois ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ sjourdois ];
   };
 }
 ```
@@ -1155,12 +1155,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   # Tests cannot import pyfftw. pyfftw works fine though.
   doCheck = false;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/pyFFTW/pyFFTW/releases/tag/v${version}";
     description = "A pythonic wrapper around FFTW, the FFT library, presenting a unified interface for all the supported transforms";
     homepage = "http://hgomersall.github.com/pyFFTW";
-    license = with licenses; [ bsd2 bsd3 ];
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+    license = with lib.licenses; [ bsd2 bsd3 ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
   };
 }
 ```
@@ -1530,12 +1530,12 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     wheel
   ];
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/releases/tag/${version}";
     homepage = "https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/";
     description = "List processing tools and functional utilities";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ fridh ];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md
index 4ba556c69d5a..75e57a8bb574 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoHash = "sha256-jtBw4ahSl88L0iuCXxQgZVm1EcboWRJMNtjxLVTtzts=";
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "A fast line-oriented regex search tool, similar to ag and ack";
     homepage = "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep";
-    license = licenses.unlicense;
+    license = lib.licenses.unlicense;
     maintainers = [];
   };
 }
@@ -923,11 +923,11 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   doCheck = false;
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "A fast line-oriented regex search tool, similar to ag and ack";
     homepage = "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep";
-    license = with licenses; [ mit unlicense ];
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [];
+    license = with lib.licenses; [ mit unlicense ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [];
   };
 }
 ```
diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/texlive.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/texlive.section.md
index 01b59f6f34a9..b6fb1099a4a4 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/texlive.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/texlive.section.md
@@ -181,11 +181,11 @@ let
       runHook postInstall
     '';
 
-    meta = with lib; {
+    meta = {
       description = "A LaTeX2e class for overhead transparencies";
-      license = licenses.unfreeRedistributable;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ veprbl ];
-      platforms = platforms.all;
+      license = lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributable;
+      maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ veprbl ];
+      platforms = lib.platforms.all;
     };
   };
 
diff --git a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
index c187f0602a1e..4a3b04b8f6e4 100644
--- a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
+++ b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@
 Nix packages can declare *meta-attributes* that contain information about a package such as a description, its homepage, its license, and so on. For instance, the GNU Hello package has a `meta` declaration like this:
 
 ```nix
-meta = with lib; {
+meta = {
   description = "A program that produces a familiar, friendly greeting";
   longDescription = ''
     GNU Hello is a program that prints "Hello, world!" when you run it.
     It is fully customizable.
   '';
   homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/";
-  license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-  maintainers = with maintainers; [ eelco ];
-  platforms = platforms.all;
+  license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+  maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ eelco ];
+  platforms = lib.platforms.all;
 };
 ```