How to Find Package of Installed Command

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I have the command bluetoothctl in my system but I do not know via which package it has been installed:

~ which bluetoothctl
/run/current-system/sw/bin/bluetoothctl

~ ls -l /run/current-system/sw/bin/bluetoothctl
/run/current-system/sw/bin/bluetoothctl -> /nix/store/h5z7lwsr57mrbkqxrw6m2gqpl7dc2a9f-bluez-5.70/bin/bluetoothctl

How can I find out why this package has been installed?

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There is a way using community tools such as nix-index GitHub - nix-community/nix-index: Quickly locate nix packages with specific files [maintainers=@bennofs @figsoda @raitobezarius]. It provides a nix-locate command, which searches for a file in the /nix/store and matches it to a corresponding derivation in nixpkgs.

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Thanks for your help. The command returns several packages of which none I have installed explicitly:

➜  ~ nix-locate 'bin/bluetoothctl'

(wine.out)                /nix/store/4dmv4yivh83w8x47jnwv8rcr08r33ssj-bluez-5.70/bin/bluetoothctl
(lutris-free.out)         /nix/store/qaixszc5w12m8mx189lxxza2g5wcsrb4-lutris-fhs/usr/bin/bluetoothctl
(lutris-free.out)         /nix/store/qaixszc5w12m8mx189lxxza2g5wcsrb4-lutris-fhs/usr/sbin/bluetoothctl
(lutris-free.out)         /nix/store/r7p7wyqvvqxkdz6p9c5la9fkzxk0ckaa-lutris-usr-target/bin/bluetoothctl
(lutris-free.out)         /nix/store/r7p7wyqvvqxkdz6p9c5la9fkzxk0ckaa-lutris-usr-target/sbin/bluetoothctl
bluez.out                 /nix/store/h5z7lwsr57mrbkqxrw6m2gqpl7dc2a9f-bluez-5.70/bin/bluetoothctl
bluez5-experimental.out   /nix/store/0a9ilf2yhiylxxz51xdd43j8h5vgccv1-bluez-5.70/bin/bluetoothctl

I guess they are dependencies of some service or other package.

It would be nice to find out which option in my NixOS configuration causes the installation of these dependencies.

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Relevant thread: How do i find out why a package is installed?

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