populate: a command line instead of a spec

The program takes populate's arguments on its command line, like other
programs: populate [OPTION]... SOURCES [TARGET], with the sources as
JSON in the file SOURCES, or on standard input for -.  TARGET has the
syntax of krops' lib's mkTarget, [USER@][HOST][:PORT][PATH], parsed the
same way, and what it leaves out gets filled in when populate runs, as
mkTarget would, from LOGNAME and the machine's name.  Options set what
the syntax can't express, or override its parts: --sudo, --ssh-arg,
--user, --host, --port, --path, and --local or --remote for whether the
target is the machine populate runs on, which populate otherwise
decides like isLocalTarget.  The sources carry no version.

pkgs.populate passes a target attribute set, as mkTarget returns it,
part by part, with --local or --remote as evaluation decides, so
nothing changes for krops.  A target string goes to the program as it
is.

The program also refuses target hosts and users starting with -, which
ssh would take for options, now that a command line can give them.

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