diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/vue/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/vue/default.nix
index 5133ad3c29eb..c338a101563e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/vue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/vue/default.nix
@@ -1,50 +1,27 @@
-x@{builderDefsPackage
-  , jre, unzip
-  , ...}:
-builderDefsPackage
-(a :
-let
-  helperArgNames = ["stdenv" "fetchurl" "builderDefsPackage"] ++
-    [];
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, jre }:
 
-  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
-    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
-  sourceInfo = rec {
-    baseName="vue";
-    version="3.2.2";
-    name="${baseName}-${version}";
-    url="releases.atech.tufts.edu/jenkins/job/VUE/64/deployedArtifacts/download/artifact.2";
-    hash="0sb1kgan8fvph2cqfxk3906cwx5wy83zni2vlz4zzi6yg4zvfxld";
-  };
-in
-rec {
-  src = a.fetchurl {
-    url = sourceInfo.url;
-    sha256 = sourceInfo.hash;
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "vue-${version}";
+  version = "3.2.2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "releases.atech.tufts.edu/jenkins/job/VUE/64/deployedArtifacts/download/artifact.2";
+    sha256 = "0sb1kgan8fvph2cqfxk3906cwx5wy83zni2vlz4zzi6yg4zvfxld";
   };
 
-  inherit (sourceInfo) name version;
-  inherit buildInputs;
+  phases = "installPhase";
 
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  phaseNames = ["doDeploy"];
-
-  doDeploy = a.fullDepEntry ''
+  installPhase = ''
     mkdir -p "$out"/{share/vue,bin}
     cp ${src} "$out/share/vue/vue.jar"
-    echo '#!${a.stdenv.shell}' >> "$out/bin/vue"
-    echo '${a.jre}/bin/java -jar "'"$out/share/vue/vue.jar"'" "$@"' >> "$out/bin/vue"
+    echo '#!${stdenv.shell}' >> "$out/bin/vue"
+    echo '${jre}/bin/java -jar "'"$out/share/vue/vue.jar"'" "$@"' >> "$out/bin/vue"
     chmod a+x "$out/bin/vue"
-  '' ["addInputs" "defEnsureDir"];
+  '';
 
   meta = {
     description = "Visual Understanding Environment - mind mapping software";
-    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
-    [
-      raskin
-    ];
-    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
-      linux;
-    license = a.lib.licenses.free; # Apache License fork, actually
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
+    platforms = with stdenv.lib.platforms; linux;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.free; # Apache License fork, actually
   };
-}) x
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/ldcpp/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/ldcpp/default.nix
index 6f282b30fa14..14b68d71e79a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/ldcpp/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/p2p/ldcpp/default.nix
@@ -1,37 +1,28 @@
-{ builderDefs, scons, pkgconfig, gtk, bzip2, libglade, openssl, libX11, boost, zlib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, scons, pkgconfig, gtk, bzip2, libglade, openssl
+, libX11, boost, zlib, libnotify }:
 
-with builderDefs;
-  let localDefs = builderDefs.passthru.function ((rec {
-    src = /* put a fetchurl here */
-    fetchurl {
-      url = http://launchpad.net/linuxdcpp/1.1/1.1.0/+download/linuxdcpp-1.1.0.tar.bz2;
-      sha256 = "66012740e9347a2e994c8af5609c40ebf3f86f767258e071a03ef39a2314298a";
-    };
-
-    buildInputs = [scons pkgconfig gtk bzip2 libglade
-      openssl libX11 boost];
-    configureFlags = [];
-    doScons = fullDepEntry (''
-      mkdir -p $out
-      export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -lX11";
-      
-      for i in gettext xgettext msgfmt msgcat; do
-        echo > $i
-	chmod a+x $i
-      done
-      export PATH=$PATH:$PWD
-
-      scons PREFIX=$out 
-      scons PREFIX=$out install
-    '') ["minInit" "doUnpack" "addInputs" "defEnsureDir"];
-  }));
-  in with localDefs;
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ldcpp-1.1.0";
-  builder = writeScript (name + "-builder")
-    (textClosure localDefs 
-      [doScons doForceShare doPropagate]);
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://launchpad.net/linuxdcpp/1.1/1.1.0/+download/linuxdcpp-1.1.0.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "12i92hirmwryl1qy0n3jfrpziwzb82f61xca9jcjwyilx502f0b6";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ scons pkgconfig gtk bzip2 libglade openssl libX11 boost libnotify ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -lX11";
+
+    touch gettext xgettext msgfmt msgcat
+    chmod +x gettext xgettext msgfmt msgcat
+    export PATH=$PATH:$PWD
+
+    mkdir -p $out
+    scons PREFIX=$out
+    scons PREFIX=$out install
+  '';
+
   meta = {
-    description = "Linux DC++ - Direct Connect client";
+    description = "Direct Connect client";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
index 0be604c62461..530b04e8b42e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffcall/default.nix
@@ -1,38 +1,28 @@
-a :  
-let 
-  fetchurl = a.fetchurl;
+{ stdenv, fetchcvs }:
 
-  version = a.lib.attrByPath ["version"] "2009-05-27" a; 
-  buildInputs = with a; [
-    
-  ];
-in
-rec {
-  src = a.fetchcvs {
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libffcall-${version}";
+  version = "2009-05-27";
+  src = fetchcvs {
     cvsRoot = ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/libffcall";
     module = "ffcall";
     date = version;
-    sha256 = "91bcb5a20c85a9ccab45886aae8fdbbcf1f20f995ef898e8bdd2964448daf724";
+    sha256 = "097pv94495njppl9iy2yk47z5wdwvf7swsl88nmwrac51jibbg4i";
   };
 
-  inherit buildInputs;
-  configureFlags = [];
-
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  phaseNames = ["doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
-      
-  doConfigure = a.fullDepEntry (''
+  configurePhase = ''
     for i in ./configure */configure; do
       cwd="$PWD"
-      cd "$(dirname "$i")"; 
+      cd "$(dirname "$i")";
       ( test -f Makefile && make distclean ) || true
       ./configure --prefix=$out
       cd "$cwd"
     done
-  '') a.doConfigure.deps;
+  '';
 
-  name = "libffcall-" + version;
   meta = {
     description = "Foreign function call library";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/ioping/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/ioping/default.nix
index 932b68197ce6..54721f7ce73d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/ioping/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/ioping/default.nix
@@ -1,47 +1,20 @@
-x@{builderDefsPackage
-  , ...}:
-builderDefsPackage
-(a :  
-let 
-  helperArgNames = ["stdenv" "fetchurl" "builderDefsPackage"] ++ 
-    [];
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
 
-  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
-    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
-  sourceInfo = rec {
-    baseName="ioping";
-    version = "0.9";
-    name="${baseName}-${version}";
-    url="https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0B_PlDc2qaehFWWtLZ3Z3N1ltdm8&export=download";
-  };
-in
-rec {
-  src = a.fetchurl {
-    url = sourceInfo.url;
-    name = "${sourceInfo.name}.tar.gz";
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "ioping-${version}";
+  version = "0.9";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/koct9i/ioping/releases/download/v${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "0pbp7b3304y9yyv2w41l3898h5q8w77hnnnq1vz8qz4qfl4467lm";
   };
 
-  inherit (sourceInfo) name version;
-  inherit buildInputs;
+  makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
 
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  phaseNames = ["doMakeInstall"];
-  makeFlags = [
-    ''PREFIX="$out"''
-  ];
-      
-  meta = {
-    description = "Filesystem IO delay time measurer";
-    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
-    [
-      raskin
-    ];
-    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
-      linux;
-    license = a.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    homepage = "http://code.google.com/p/ioping/";
-    inherit version;
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Disk I/O latency measuring tool";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ raskin ];
+    platforms = with platforms; unix;
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    homepage = https://github.com/koct9i/ioping;
   };
-}) x
-
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index af342adca295..6692d0d4ece4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6475,9 +6475,7 @@ let
 
   libfixposix = callPackage ../development/libraries/libfixposix {};
 
-  libffcall = builderDefsPackage (import ../development/libraries/libffcall) {
-    inherit fetchcvs;
-  };
+  libffcall = callPackage ../development/libraries/libffcall { };
 
   libffi = callPackage ../development/libraries/libffi { };