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Only one alias of a package is visible

Open gepbird opened this issue 9 months ago • 1 comments

There is a pnpm and a pnpm_10 attribute pointing to the same package:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/9e9554c0b5273a8193aefcd8ba04b793be1dbad9/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L4148-L4153

But pnpm_10 is not found, only pnpm, pnpm_8 and pnpm_9: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=pnpm

gepbird avatar Jul 14 '25 15:07 gepbird

This would also help with packages that do expose a library that is named differently than the package. For example file exposes libmagic which is not findable right now. If aliases were at least searched, we could provide an alias libmagic by which that package can be found.

dwt avatar Jul 19 '25 12:07 dwt