Why all these questions in the package manager asking if I want to keep the old instead of the new?

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

MY advice is

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The fast and correct way, including my own opinions, would be

Ensure meld is installed

sudo pacman -Syu meld

Set the DIFFPROG environment variable

echo "DIFFPROG=/usr/bin/meld" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

Source the environment file to be sure

source /etc/environment

Run pacdiff

pacdiff -s

Use ‘v’ to view, compare, edit, and merge new code.

(note the same file will be presented again after merge/save/close … if satisfied with the marge you can then ‘r’ for remove. Or just ‘s’ to skip … retaining the file for next pacdiff check, such as after a reboot)

The focus is to preserve configurations while adding in the new standards.

This recent post also includes some of the ‘easier’ options and additional hooks

After Screen Lock, inputting password gets me to a black screen with functional cursor

They would be printed during update every time they are created. There are also extra hooks and things if you want them. Including manjaro-pacnew-checker which is actually a ‘more friendly gui’ for handling pacnews and a hook that will run when required by updates: extra/manjaro-pacnew-checker 0.5.4-1 [27.68 KiB 74.42 KiB] Simple checker for pacnew/pacsave files and manage it And other packages like this AUR one that is really just the hook: aur/pacdiff-pacman-hook-git r81.9d5f298-1 [+…