[AceJohnny2]

nix local package search sucks, and it is much more effective to use the online package search [1].

It's astounding because the local version is doing a naive, case-sensitive regex search, which is pretty bad when you're looking for, say, the Perl package MIME::Lite which can have various junctions and capitalizations. In fact, that package has a listed name of perl5.34.0-MIME-Lite but is installable as nixpkgs.perl534Packages.MIMELite!? I can't even

I found the code a few months back (but can't be bothered to look it up just for a comment). I didn't fix it then because I had other priorities than learning how to modify my local copy of nix to test it.

[1] https://search.nixos.org/packages