PACMAN-CONF(8)

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💖 PACMAN-CONF(8) — the pacman manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to pacman-conf, section 8 of the pacman manual. this is the little utility that reads pacman's config file and spits out answers you can actually script against. she's lowkey iconic and she does NOT miss. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pacman-conf — query pacman's configuration file 🔍

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pacman-conf [options] [<directive> ...]

pacman-conf (--repo-list|--help|--version)

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. pacman-conf is a utility for parsing the pacman configuration file and returning script-friendly output. she's built different, fr fr — she properly handles non-trivial config features like variable interpolation and the Include directive, and she guarantees she'll hand you back the same configuration values that pacman itself would use. no cap. 💅

by default, pacman-conf outputs the fully-resolved contents of the configuration file. or, if you hand her the name of a configuration directive, she'll output the contents of that given directive alone. give her a name and she gives you the tea. ☕✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -c, --config <path> — specify an alternate configuration file. 🗂️
  • -R, --rootdir <path> — specify an alternate installation root (default is /). 🏠
  • -r, --repo <repository> — query options for a specific repository. 📦
  • -v, --verbose — always shown directive names. 👀
  • -l, --repo-list — list configured repositories. 📋
  • -h, --help — output syntax and command line options. 🆘
  • -V, --version — display version and exit. 🏷️

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

okay bestie, here's how she eats: 🍽️

  • pacman-conf -r core Usage — show the value of the Usage configuration option for the core repository.
  • pacman-conf HoldPkg — show the value of the HoldPkg configuration option.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

see the pacman website at https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools. 🌐

✨ BUGS ✨

bugs?? bestie. you must be kidding. there are no bugs in this software. 💀✨ periodt.

but if we happen to be wrong (🙈), please report them to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues with specific information such as your command-line, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps. receipts, basically. 🧾

✨ AUTHORS ✨

current maintainers: 👑

  • Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
  • Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
  • Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo@archlinux.org>

past major contributors: 🌟

  • Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
  • Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
  • Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
  • Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
  • Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
  • Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
  • Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
  • Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>

for additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git repository. 🫡

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this was Pacman 7.1.0, dated 2026-10-15. go forth and query your config, you absolute main character. 👑💖🌈

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