I find myself frustrated by Ubuntu's packaging system. I really like Arch Linux, because I can do pacman -S ruby, and I have everything I need. Including a work

I find myself frustrated by Ubuntu's packaging system. I really like Arch Linux, because I can do pacman -S ruby, and I have everything I need. Including a working Ruby Gems that I can use to update itself. And a copy of the latest Ruby 1.9, without having to change symlinks, etc. I find myself hating the fact that I have to configure everything manually though, I don't mind using Gnome, or KDE, I just really like pacman. Configuring fonts it's just not my idea of fun. Is there any chance that I would be more satisfied with Fedora's packaging? I'm going to throw it in a virtualbox to check it out, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience?