Odd behavior of FindFile

Question

Running FindFile gives some odd results on my machine:

FindFile["HTTPClient`"]

Result:

/Users/kratky/Library/Mathematica/Paclets/Repository/HTTPClient-10.1.33/Kernel/init.m

The path /Users/kratky/Library/Mathematica/Paclets/Repository is not on the $Path.

$Path // TableForm

/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/SystemFiles/Links
/Users/kratky/Library/Mathematica/Kernel
/Users/kratky/Library/Mathematica/Autoload
/Users/kratky/Library/Mathematica/Applications
/Library/Mathematica/Kernel
/Library/Mathematica/Autoload
/Library/Mathematica/Applications
.
/Users/kratky
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/AddOns/Packages
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/SystemFiles/Autoload
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/AddOns/Autoload
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/AddOns/Applications
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/AddOns/ExtraPackages
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/SystemFiles/Kernel/Packages
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/Documentation/English/System
/Applications/Mathematica 10.1.app/Contents/SystemFiles/Data/ICC

How does Mathematica's paclet manager interfere with the package search path? This does not seem to be documented properly anywhere.

I'm not sure about the details of PacletManager, but note that the file you mentioned is located inside $UserBasePacletsDirectory. — Stefan R, May 15 '15 at 16:00

Odd behavior of FindFile

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