[Backport release-26.05] Allow meta.problems while preventing internal use of certain kinds - #535859
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Makes future changes easier (cherry picked from commit eba1d51)
This ensures that external tooling can also process the problems, and helps users with debugging. (cherry picked from commit 8fcbb35)
This is very similar to how the aliases.nix overlay can be removed to prevent usage of them in Nixpkgs itself, but this config attribute allows preventing use of other existing attributes in Nixpkgs. Needed for a follow-up commit. (cherry picked from commit 7cc4d7d)
(cherry picked from commit 19a3165)
(cherry picked from commit a90d993)
CI already catches problematic uses, we don't need to bother about them here (cherry picked from commit 8fa1b2e)
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