PK...S(1)

💅 PK...S(1) — bestie edition 💅

okay so this is the manual for PK...S(1), aka the Debian Qt/KDE tool to mark private symbols in symbols files. yes the title is literally PK...S(1), that's not me being mysterious, that's the actual page name. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pkgkde-mark-private-symbols — a lil helper tool for Debian pkg-kde symbols handling. she's here to help, she's lowkey iconic, and she only does one job but she does it well 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkgkde-mark-private-symbols [path/to/headers/dir]

so like. pkgkde-mark-private-symbols is a helper tool whose whole entire thing is marking private symbols inside symbols files. it's giving "one trick pony" but make it useful 💖

her only parameter is the path to where the headers shipped with the packages are installed. that's it. that's the vibe. no extra flags, no secret menu, no --help-and-pray situation (well, okay, the manual doesn't promise a --help, so don't come for me 🙈).

by default, pkgkde-mark-private-symbols writes the differences as patches to stdout — so you can peek at what she's about to do before anything spicy happens. but if the environment variable WRITERESULTS is set, she will overwrite the original symbols files. no take-backs. so fr fr, check that stdout first if you care about your files 🫣

⚠️ setting WRITERESULTS means the original symbols files get overwritten. that's the actual documented behaviour, bestie, not me being dramatic (okay maybe a little dramatic, but also accurate).

📜 LICENSE 📜

this program is free software, distributed under the terms of the Expat license. free as in go off, queen 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends behind the keyboard, no cap:

• Sune Vuorela <sune@debian.org>
• Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>
• Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was version 0.15.17, dated 2015-05-13, and it's the Debian Qt/KDE tool to mark private symbols in symbols files — aka PK...S(1), aka the moment. slay, hydrate, and read your stdout before you set WRITERESULTS 💖✨🦋