Hazarding a guess, I would suppose it's to tell bacman to look for ".pacnew" file as well because those will be up-to-date relative to the files that are already there. On 17 May 2015 at 08:09, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I can't find a documentation, perhaps because my Internet connection today is very slow.

bacman [--nocolor] [--pacnew] <installed package name>

What's the use of bacman's pacnew option?

TIA, Ralf

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