On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 03:12 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
  Merging the occasional .pacnew file takes maybe five
minutes and the
 most frequent candidate is /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with a hand ful of
 changes, so not terribly important. 
Most of the times I ignore .pacnews ;).
JFTR there are also a few audio folks
$ cat /etc/pacman.conf
# [snip]
# ArchAudio Production
[archaudio-production]
Server = 
http://repos.archaudio.org/$repo/$arch
# [snip]
Btw. the pacman.conf's IgnorePkg and NoExtract options could be very
useful.
http://archaudio.org/