PACCAPABILITY(1)

📦 version 0.15.0, in arch rolling

💅 PACCAPABILITY(1) — like, the paccapability page bestie 🫶

okay so you opened the manual for paccapability and you're like "what even is this" — don't worry, i gotchu. this is the page for paccapability, and honestly? it's a little icon. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

paccapability — query libalpm capabilities 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

 paccapability [options] [<capability>...]
 paccapability (--help|--version)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so paccapability is literally your bestie for finding out which features libalpm was built with. that's it, that's the job. no cap. 🦋

the recognized capabilities are:

  • ALPM_CAPABILITY_NLS
  • ALPM_CAPABILITY_DOWNLOADER
  • ALPM_CAPABILITY_SIGNATURES

now the details, because the details are giving main character energy:

  • capabilities are case-insensitive — type it however, she's not judging 🙈
  • you can also omit the leading "ALPM_CAPABILITY_" — yeah, the prefix is optional, we love a low-effort era
  • if you pass no capabilities at all, then all the enabled capabilities get printed, one per line 💫
  • otherwise, each capability you provided gets printed, one per line, followed by a one or a zero to show whether that feature is enabled or disabled respectively 👑
  • and heads up bestie: if any of the given capabilities are disabled, paccapability will exit with a non-zero value 💀 so it's perfect for scripting
lowkey iconic behaviour: it doubles as a feature test. slay.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --help — display usage information and dip. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🌈
  • --version — display version information and dip. same energy, different output 🎀

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

check if libalpm was built with signature checking:

     paccapability signatures >/dev/null && ...

like… the >/dev/null is hiding the output so you only get the exit status, and the && means "and if that worked, do the next thing". it's giving clean script energy, ngl 🔥

so yeah, that's the whole page fr fr — hope this made it click 🧚💜

this page came to you from pacutils, dated 2025-12-04 — mwah, go query some capabilities bestie 💅🌸

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