Days Since `pacman -Syu`

Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat and realize it’s been three weeks since I ran pacman -Syu . No more. I use GNOME (btw), so I made a little GNOME shell extension for myself, constantly showing how long it’s been in the top bar. That 1d means I updated my packages one day ago. If it’s been ten days or more, the number turns yellow. As far as engineering goes, the process was pretty unremarkable.…