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Arch became stable. The package manager Pacman is mature. The advantage with Arch it's that you don't have to compile every packages from the sources, as Gentoo

by Nic0 15y ago

Arch became stable. The package manager Pacman is mature. The advantage with Arch it's that you don't have to compile every packages from the sources, as Gentoo does, so it's faster, and easier to maintain. Arch absolutely worth a try. Only package from AUR needed to be compile, but it's for more specific package. For example, kernel, xorg, Gnome and so on are available with pacman as binary.

foobarqux 15y ago
The question is not whether the package manager itself is stable but what degree of quality assurance is present in the packages themselves and in interdependencies between packages. I was always afraid to run "emerge world" because of how often it would break my system.