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Agreed. pacman -Syu is a godsend. Of course that's just the face of a great package manager and packaging. In many ways on Arch you could make the argument that it just works.

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It does not get any better than pacman for sure, but I'm pretty happy with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade :)

The best package manager on Linux I've ever used is Sorcery, although pacman is a close second.

I'm still partial to the *BSD way of ports, however.

Source-based distributions have their advantages but for me the biggest disadvantage is the wasting of my time.

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