Arch users: update pacman soon

The Arch Linux developers recently released version 5.0 of the pacman package manager with some useful new features: "The release of pacman-5.0 brought support for transactional hooks. These will allow us to (e.g.) run font cache updates a single time during an update rather than after each font package installation. This will both speed up the update process, but also reduce packaging burden for the Developers and Trusted Users." Unfortunately, once they start using these hooks, older versions of pacman will no longer understand the resulting packages. That will happen on April 23, so all Arch users need to have upgraded by then.

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