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This package will be made available on your flake's `packages` output with the same name as the
directory that you created.
directory that you created (i.e. `packages.my-package`). Also, from inside a module you can reference it via `pkgs.${namespace}` (i.e. `pkgs.plusultra.my-package`).
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I think we can probably reword this to mention how this is done as a part of overlays which are why system configuration receives these packages as a namespaced collection on pkgs.