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

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Arch Linux users received today one of the biggest updates in the history of the Linux kernel-based operating system for the built-in pacman package manager utility.

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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