PACINFO(1)

💖 PACINFO(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the pacinfo manual — she’s the one who displays package information, and yes she ate. this page is PACINFO(1), and we’re gonna go through it together, no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pacinfo — display package information. that’s the whole vibe: package info, served fresh. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pacinfo [options] (<pkgspec>|<pkgname>)...
pacinfo (--help|--version)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

if a pkgname is given, info for all packages matching that name in all databases gets displayed. yes, all of them. she’s thorough. 👑

if stdin is not connected to a terminal, packages will be read from stdin. that’s the whole rule, bestie.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --config=path — set an alternate configuration file path. your config, your rules. 🎀
• --dbext=extension — set an alternate sync database extension. slay that extension. ✨
• --dbpath=path — set an alternate database path. point her at a different database home. 🏠
• --root=path — set an alternate installation root. different root, same iconic energy. 🌈
• --sysroot=path — set an alternate system root. see pacutils-sysroot(7) for the deets. 🫶
• --null[=sep] — set an alternate separator for values parsed from stdin. by default a newline "\n" is used as the separator. if --null is used without specifying sep, "NUL" will be used. separator glow-up, fr fr. 🦋
• --no-timeout — disable low-speed timeouts for downloads. no low-speed timeout drama. 💀
• --short — display brief information. suitable for printing a potentially large number of packages, like this:

pacsift --name libreoffice | pacinfo --short

brief but still booked and busy. 💖

• --verbose — display additional package information: "required by", "optional for", and "base64 signature". she’s giving extra, and we love that. 👑
• --raw — display raw numeric size and date values. numbers and dates, unfiltered. 🔥
• --removable-size — include the size of any removable dependencies in installed size. if it’s removable, it still counts here. 🙈
• --help — display usage information and exit. help is there when you need it. 🌸
• --version — display version information and exit. version check, then bye. ⭐

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

okay, important bestie moment: pacinfo determines whether or not to read packages from stdin based on a naive check using isatty(3). that’s the caveat. 😭

if pacinfo is called in an environment — such as a shell function or script being used in a pipe — where stdin is not connected to a terminal but does not contain packages to print, pacinfo should be called with stdin closed. for POSIX-compatible shells, this can be done with <&-. yes, literally that. no cap. 🫶

bye bestie 💖 — from pacutils, dated 2025-12-04, and yes this is PACINFO(1), periodt.