Check and manage pacnew files

[Teo]

There is definitely the need of it for new users, that only click on “apply” in pamac and don’t read the log. We have the Manjaro Notifier to notify for unsupported kernels, pacnews are just as important as we saw with the removal of the extra repo. So for me this actually belong there in the long run. On the short term i think this should be shipped and enabled by default on new installs. Even if it is only in english for now.

We actually discussed it recently here

Pacnew automation

In the light of the latest events became clear, that a change in the conf files, respectively the generation of .pacnew files, is something that happens relatively rare, but when it happens is either overlooked from or confuses the less experienced users. How about you automate the process a little bit? This can be integrated in MSM Notifier for example. Just like the check for new kernel or translation, it can periodically check for pacnew/old files. Then it can display a message for 2 cases. …

Congratulations for the script, if looks very nice. My 2-3 cents @Ste74 when i look at the source:

• isn’t 10 minutes a bit too frequently and waste of CPU? At least make it an hour or so?
• meld and yad are not installed by default, i hope you marked them as dependencies (cannot check my mirrors seem not to be updated yet)
• you have a tiny spelling error #Cicla / #Circle