Quite confused with some "un-searchable?" nix pakages

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Also, if you want to know where an attribute is defined, you can use:

nix-repl> builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos "pam" pkgs
{
  column = 3;
  file = "/nix/store/9g7xq4cldszn00p70awljpim92xg2c1s-source/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix";
  line = 27037;
}

which (given that my nixpkgs revision is c3aa7b8938b17aebd2deecf7be0636000d62a2b9) points to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c3aa7b8938b17aebd2deecf7be0636000d62a2b9/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L27037

If the above command shows null, it’s probably defined in pkgs/by-name instead (which you can verify with the meta.position as mentioned above).

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