"cabal user-config update" doesn't work with nested config fields
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Description
**Describe the bug**
Generate a standard `cabal` config file with `cabal user-config init`, then modify a field within another field (e.g. `ar-location` within `program-locations`). Calling `cabal user-config diff` would result in:
```
+ ar-location: /bin/my-custom-ar
```
But trying to apply the patch above with `cabal user-config update -a "ar-location: /bin/my-custom-ar"` would result in the following error:
```
cabal: Error parsing additional config lines: Unrecognized field ar-location
on line 1
```
The same error applies to all updates to nested config fields. It seems `cabal user-config update` only works when the diff provided by `-a` is only a top-level field.
**To Reproduce**
See above.
**System information**
- Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- `cabal-3.2.0.0`
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