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Here’s What’s New in Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.0 Package Manager

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Marius Nestor
Feb 1, 2016

Pacman 5.0 is finally here after many months of development, during which its maintainers managed to add a great number of new features, such as support for running hooks before and after transactions, support for reading and syncing databases in the .files format with the -Fy option, as well as to search for files in sync repositories using either the -Fo or -Fs arguments.
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