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by Flex247A 1848 days ago
The way pacman installs new kernels by default is just replacing the old package with the new one. This is bad because if for some reason the new kernel package gets corrupted, the system will fail to boot, and you will have to arch-chroot into the system to install the kernel again. Fedora on the other hand keeps old kernels for some time before removing them.