This. Plus, makepkg is awesome. If, say, I need a specific font installed, I have no trouble with whipping out a short PKGBUILD that downlads, checks, and inst

This. Plus, makepkg is awesome. If, say, I need a specific font installed, I have no trouble with whipping out a short PKGBUILD that downlads, checks, and installs the files - providing me with the option to manage it using Pacman. Its simplicity seems so essential to me that I can't imagine why there are so few distros providing tools like it.