Arch news reader and pacman interrupter when there is news
This application offers a way to view the Arch news and prevents you from updating/installing/removing things until you read that news item.
pacnews c # checks if there are new news items, and if so, returns exit code 1pacnews r # lists all the news items you haven't seen before and marks them as read- It stores a bolt database with all the read items in:
/var/cache/pacnews.db - It installs a hook in
/etc/pacman.d/hooks/pacnews.hook