Yet none of the setup guides really stress this and there's no preferred method to keep up to date on things. Arch really needs a better system for making it ob

Yet none of the setup guides really stress this and there's no preferred method to keep up to date on things. Arch really needs a better system for making it obvious when nontrivial updates are about to happen. Note, I use pacmatic, which pulls the news feeds, but it took me getting bitten a few times before I learned to do this.