That’s a flaw with pacman and I’ll die on that hill. If it’s critical for someone to read the Arch News file before updates and pacman supports pre install hooks it should be recording what time you last installed updates and checking for updates to the news file since then and printing them or giving you the link to it and saying “THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE NEWS FILE, PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING.”
That’s a flaw with pacman and I’ll die on that hill. If it’s critical for someone to read the Arch News file before updates and pacman supports pre install hooks it should be recording what time you last installed updates and checking for updates to the news file since then and printing them or giving you the link to it and saying “THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE NEWS FILE, PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING.”