[arch-general] No login after update

[Andy Pieters]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 07:10, Kusoneko <kusoneko at kusoneko.moe> wrote:

>
> I think he's trying to imply that pacman stores a copy of the archive
> containing the previous version somewhere and that pacman should extract
> the config files from both and see if something changed before providing a
> .pacnew. Only thing is, that would cost much more storage space than if one
> lazily ignored and let the pacnew files be wherever they're placed. In
> other words, not really a good idea unless you have tons of storage space.
> I guess you could theoretically patch pacman to do so for yourself if you
> really wanted to, but for most people it wouldn't be worth it.


I don't see what all the fuss is about

If you're using Arch, then you should:

1. Check Arch news before running update
2. Update regularly
3. Watch output from pacman for warnings/advice
4. Run pacdiff after update and before reboot

After step 4 there are no longer any pacnew files