Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 3rd Nov 2004 07:07 UTC
To paraphrase one of the best "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes, "Best of Both Worlds", both Arch Linux and Slackware represent the best of all the OS worlds: the power of traditional Unix, the elegance of BSD and the ease of mind of Mac OS X. This is an article outlining the differences between --what I believe-- are the two best Linux distros around today. Mind you though, "best" doesn't always mean "easy".
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On the other hand, Arch's package management, Pacman, supports dependencies and it's as easy to install new packages as is with Swaret, if not even easier. Pacman works well; however, in my opinion, its main problem has to do with the creation of new packages.
This is the most surprising comment i have ever seen!!
Haven't you heard of ABS (Arch Build System) and also theres 100's of PKGBUILD files available in arch forums for software that isn't in the repository. All you need to do is download this PKGBUILD file and then as fakeroot type : makepkg
thats all and you have arch package thats installable by PACMAN! Look through a PKGBUILD it's very simple to make your own.