Linked by Ben Mazer on Wed 15th Oct 2003 20:58 UTC
A few months ago I was a Slackware Junkie. I loved it, and laughed at those who used 'more automatic' distributions (ok, I didn't actually laugh). Then Arch Linux 0.5 came out and I was very intrigued by it. I was getting tired of having to compile updated packages myself. 
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How many times did you say "Maybe arch does that...I dont know".
If you read the review, you would I see I answered that.
Arch has a PKGBUILD (similar to an ebuild) for every package in the repositories. You can easily rebuild packages for customization. I even gave an example of that in the review.
And on the "hypocrite" comments, yes, I was wrong. I guess I should have been more clear. I was trying to explain that I use to think Dependancy-checking caused more problems than it's worth (due to Debian issues), but now that I found Arch, I love that feature.
Also, like I said, I didn't actually laugh. I never made any big deal about it. I maybe contempated it a total of 20 minutes.