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+{ lib, ... }:
+let
+  /* Generate an INI-style config file from an attrset
+   * specifying the global section (no header), and a
+   * list of sections which contain name/value pairs.
+   *
+   * generators.toINI {} {
+   *   globalSection = [
+   *     { name = "someGlobalKey"; value = "hi"; }
+   *   ];
+   *   sections = [
+   *     { name = "foo"; value = [
+   *         { name = "hi"; value = "${pkgs.hello}"; }
+   *         { name = "ciao"; value = "bar"; }
+   *       ];
+   *     }
+   *     { name = "baz";
+   *       value = [ { name = "also, integers"; value = 42; } ];
+   *     }
+   *   ];
+   * }
+   *
+   *> someGlobalKey=hi
+   *>
+   *> [foo]
+   *> hi=/nix/store/y93qql1p5ggfnaqjjqhxcw0vqw95rlz0-hello-2.10
+   *> ciao=bar
+   *>
+   *> [baz]
+   *> also, integers=42
+   *>
+   *
+   * The mk* configuration attributes can generically change
+   * the way sections and key-value strings are generated.
+   *
+   * Order of the sections and of keys is preserved,
+   * duplicate keys are allowed.
+   */
+  toINI =
+    {
+      # apply transformations (e.g. escapes) to section names
+      mkSectionName ? (name: lib.strings.escape [ "[" "]" ] name)
+    , # format a setting line from key and value
+      mkKeyValue ? lib.generators.mkKeyValueDefault { } "="
+    ,
+    }: { globalSection, sections }:
+    let
+      mkSection = sectName: sectValues: ''
+        [${mkSectionName sectName}]
+      '' + toKeyValue { inherit mkKeyValue; } sectValues;
+      # map input to ini sections
+      mkSections = lib.strings.concatMapStringsSep "\n"
+        ({ name, value }: mkSection name value)
+        sections;
+      mkGlobalSection =
+        if globalSection == [ ]
+        then ""
+        else toKeyValue { inherit mkKeyValue; } globalSection
+          + "\n";
+    in
+    mkGlobalSection
+    + mkSections;
+
+  /* Generate a name-value-style config file from a list.
+   *
+   * mkKeyValue is the same as in toINI.
+   */
+  toKeyValue =
+    { mkKeyValue ? lib.generators.mkKeyValueDefault { } "="
+    ,
+    }:
+    let
+      mkLine = k: v: mkKeyValue k v + "\n";
+      mkLines = k: v: [ (mkLine k v) ];
+    in
+    nameValues: lib.strings.concatStrings (lib.concatLists (map ({ name, value }: mkLines name value) nameValues));
+
+in
+toINI