I like to keep track of what's on my system and what is getting updated. However, there's a lot of tiny updates, e.g. gedit 3.6.2-1 to 3.6.2-2 that I don't want to think too much about.
Is there a simple way to make pacman highlight major updates, e.g. changes to the first or second segments in the version number? (Of course I realise that such a heuristic isn't very useful, but this seems like a problem that someone would have solved already.)
Here is an example with a lot of tiny updates:
automake 1.12.5-1 1.12.6-1 0.00 MiB
bison 2.6.5-1 2.7-1 0.03 MiB
cdrtools 3.01a09-1 3.01a10-1 0.00 MiB
cifs-utils 5.7-1 5.8-1 0.00 MiB
icu 50.1-2 50.1.1-1 -0.04 MiB
isl 0.11-1 0.11.1-1 0.01 MiB
lib32-libpulse 2.1-1 3.0-1 0.03 MiB
lib32-sqlite 3.7.14.1-1 3.7.15-1 0.00 MiB
libpulse 2.1-1 3.0-2 0.16 MiB
libwbclient 3.6.9-1 3.6.10-1 0.00 MiB
linux 3.6.9-1 3.6.10-1 0.01 MiB
ntp 4.2.6.p5-11 4.2.6.p5-13 -0.05 MiB
pixman 0.28.0-1 0.28.2-1 0.00 MiB
pulseaudio 2.1-1 3.0-2 -0.05 MiB
python2-beaker 1.6.3-2 1.6.4-1 0.03 MiB
python2-distribute 0.6.30-1 0.6.32-1 0.02 MiB
python2-mako 0.7.2-2 0.7.3-1 0.00 MiB
python2-pyparsing 1.5.6-3 1.5.7-1 0.00 MiB
python2-xdg 0.23-2 0.25-1 0.02 MiB
samba 3.6.9-1 3.6.10-1 0.02 MiB
sbc 1.0-1 0.24 MiB
smbclient 3.6.9-1 3.6.10-1 0.00 MiB
sqlite 3.7.14.1-1 3.7.15-1 0.01 MiB
vlc 2.0.4-5 2.0.5-1 -1.42 MiB
wesnoth-data 1.10.5-1 1.10.5-2 98.07 MiB
xorg-server 1.13.0.902-2 1.13.1-1 0.00 MiB
xorg-server-common 1.13.0.902-2 1.13.1-1 0.00 MiB
Pulse Audio 2.1 -> 3.0 and a kernel update are hidden in there, and I'd like them to stand out more.