diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-attrpaths-superset.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-attrpaths-superset.nix
index 968ca142ecf7..e339d15e1554 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-attrpaths-superset.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-attrpaths-superset.nix
@@ -30,63 +30,6 @@
 }:
 let
 
-  # No release package attrpath may have any of these attrnames as
-  # its initial component.
-  #
-  # If you can find a way to remove any of these entries without
-  # causing CI to fail, please do so.
-  #
-  excluded-toplevel-attrs = {
-    # spliced packagesets
-    __splicedPackages = true;
-    pkgsBuildBuild = true;
-    pkgsBuildHost = true;
-    pkgsBuildTarget = true;
-    pkgsHostHost = true;
-    pkgsHostTarget = true;
-    pkgsTargetTarget = true;
-    buildPackages = true;
-    targetPackages = true;
-
-    # cross packagesets
-    pkgsLLVM = true;
-    pkgsMusl = true;
-    pkgsStatic = true;
-    pkgsCross = true;
-    pkgsx86_64Darwin = true;
-    pkgsi686Linux = true;
-    pkgsLinux = true;
-    pkgsExtraHardening = true;
-  };
-
-  # No release package attrname may have any of these at a component
-  # anywhere in its attrpath.  These are the names of gigantic
-  # top-level attrsets that have leaked into so many sub-packagesets
-  # that it's easier to simply exclude them entirely.
-  #
-  # If you can find a way to remove any of these entries without
-  # causing CI to fail, please do so.
-  #
-  excluded-attrnames-at-any-depth = {
-    lib = true;
-    override = true;
-    __functor = true;
-    __functionArgs = true;
-    __splicedPackages = true;
-    newScope = true;
-    scope = true;
-    pkgs = true;
-    test-pkgs = true;
-    callPackage = true;
-    mkDerivation = true;
-    overrideDerivation = true;
-    overrideScope = true;
-
-    # Special case: lib/types.nix leaks into a lot of nixos-related
-    # derivations, and does not eval deeply.
-    type = true;
-  };
-
   # __attrsFailEvaluation is a temporary workaround to get top-level
   # eval to succeed (under builtins.tryEval) for the entire
   # packageset, without deep invasve changes into individual
@@ -104,17 +47,11 @@ let
   # part of the (unfiltered) release jobset iff all of the following
   # are true:
   #
-  # 1. The first component of the attrpath is not in
-  #    `excluded-toplevel-attrs`
+  # 1. The attrpath leads to a value for which lib.isDerivation is true
   #
-  # 2. No attrname in the attrpath belongs to the list of forbidden
-  #    attrnames `excluded-attrnames-at-any-depth`
+  # 2. No proper prefix of the attrpath has __attrsFailEvaluation=true
   #
-  # 3. The attrpath leads to a value for which lib.isDerivation is true
-  #
-  # 4. No proper prefix of the attrpath has __attrsFailEvaluation=true
-  #
-  # 5. Any proper prefix of the attrpath at which lib.isDerivation
+  # 3. Any proper prefix of the attrpath at which lib.isDerivation
   #    is true also has __recurseIntoDerivationForReleaseJobs=true.
   #
   # The last condition is unfortunately necessary because there are
@@ -150,14 +87,9 @@ let
           lib.pipe value [
             (builtins.mapAttrs (
               name: value:
-              builtins.addErrorContext
-                "while evaluating package set attribute path '${lib.showAttrPath (path ++ [ name ])}'"
-                (
-                  if excluded-attrnames-at-any-depth.${name} or false then
-                    [ ]
-                  else
-                    (justAttrNames (path ++ [ name ]) value)
-                )
+              builtins.addErrorContext "while evaluating package set attribute path '${
+                lib.showAttrPath (path ++ [ name ])
+              }'" (justAttrNames (path ++ [ name ]) value)
             ))
             builtins.attrValues
             builtins.concatLists
@@ -176,16 +108,12 @@ let
     in
     if !trace then result else lib.trace "** ${lib.concatStringsSep "." path}" result;
 
-  unfiltered = import ./release-outpaths.nix {
+  releaseOutpaths = import ./release-outpaths.nix {
     inherit checkMeta;
     attrNamesOnly = true;
     inherit path;
   };
 
-  filtered = lib.pipe unfiltered [
-    (pkgs: builtins.removeAttrs pkgs (builtins.attrNames excluded-toplevel-attrs))
-  ];
-
   paths = [
     # I am not entirely sure why these three packages end up in
     # the Hydra jobset.  But they do, and they don't meet the
@@ -202,7 +130,7 @@ let
       "pkgsMusl"
       "stdenv"
     ]
-  ] ++ justAttrNames [ ] filtered;
+  ] ++ justAttrNames [ ] releaseOutpaths;
 
   names = map (path: (lib.concatStringsSep "." path)) paths;