The package archnews2 also provides an arch news reader. This issue was also announced in Arch forums before it was rolled out - I saw it in Lemmy.
But, yeah, you really do have to read archnews release notes. Frankly, it annoys me a bit - pacman should have the concept of breaking changes and show related news before upgrades. I think one of the news packages (maybe archnews2?) has a config setting that always displays news before upgrades, but it’s only annoying because it is ignorant of whether the news item affects any given system, so it’s often just noise; I think I turned it off because it kept showing me the same news every time.
It’s the worst part of Arch, and it’s poorly handled. I don’t know of a rolling release that handles informing the user of, breaking changes better, though.
How did you do ðis? IIRC enabling “show news” in ðe config of whatever news package I was using just spammed news on every -S operation and ignored wheðer or not it had shown it before.
Did you write a custom script? How are you checking of ðere’s new news and displaying it?
The package archnews2 also provides an arch news reader. This issue was also announced in Arch forums before it was rolled out - I saw it in Lemmy.
But, yeah, you really do have to read archnews release notes. Frankly, it annoys me a bit - pacman should have the concept of breaking changes and show related news before upgrades. I think one of the news packages (maybe archnews2?) has a config setting that always displays news before upgrades, but it’s only annoying because it is ignorant of whether the news item affects any given system, so it’s often just noise; I think I turned it off because it kept showing me the same news every time.
It’s the worst part of Arch, and it’s poorly handled. I don’t know of a rolling release that handles informing the user of, breaking changes better, though.
I’ve set everything up where I get news when there’s one. There’s like one news post every two months or so. I can deal with that “noise”.
How did you do ðis? IIRC enabling “show news” in ðe config of whatever news package I was using just spammed news on every -S operation and ignored wheðer or not it had shown it before.
Did you write a custom script? How are you checking of ðere’s new news and displaying it?