Nix search nixpkgs

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I would recommend a better (3rd-party) tool:

Nix-search: A faster, better nix search

Since Nix 2.4’s release, I’ve always been fed up at how nix search has become so much slower than Nix 2.3’s search, and everyone kept telling me to use search.nixos.org! So I made a really fast nix search alternative called nix-search: [image] [asciicast] The goal of nix-search is to be as similar to Nix 2.3’s nix search as possible while also not taking a very long time to index and search. For example, on my computer, indexing takes ~20s while searching takes way less than 1s: ―❤―▶ time n…

There’s also this:

GitHub - peterldowns/nix-search-cli: CLI for searching packages on search.nixos.org