The zz.clear-paccache*.hook are the files by @keybreak taken fro here. The touch-vmlinuz.hook is my hook in order to let rEFInd get linux kernel as the last and default choice (see here). As far as I understand the hooks from /usr/share/libalpm/hooks are executed first, then the custom hooks from the directory mentioned above.
I was wondering if one has to be careful concerning a certain ordering scheme because there seems to be no direct dependeny between those hooks.
I’m not sure that having multiple interdependent hooks is a design consideration for libalpm, so if this is a factor then you might consider merging any dependent custom hooks, especially if the same subset will always trigger? For example, have a single hook that runs a script file?
I do assume that the hooks in /usr/share/libalpm/hooks are more less independent from each other. I was just wondering if a hook executed before another one could interfere with the latter one in negative way.
I’m no expert - but I saw somewhere that alpha order mattered, so I use the grub system (sort of) - I name them with 20-description and 30-description etc if I figure the order is meaningful. When I run a script from the hook - I tend to put it in a subdirectory of /etc/pacman.d/hooks called hooks.bin - so I can find them when they need changing!
(just another thing to keep track of!)
Edit: forgot to mention, having the scripts in /etc/pacman.d/hooks/hooks.bin makes it easier to move them to a different system as well.