lix/lix/libexpr/builtin-constants/nixPath.md

name, type, implementation

name	type	implementation
nixPath	list	prepareNixPath(searchPath)

The search path used to resolve angle bracket path lookups.

Angle bracket expressions can be desugared using this and builtins.findFile:

<nixpkgs>

is equivalent to:

builtins.findFile builtins.nixPath "nixpkgs"