makepkg is simple, but at a cost of not being nearly comparable to rpms or debs which handle a lot of stuff makepkg simply does not. With a proper deb you can d

makepkg is simple, but at a cost of not being nearly comparable to rpms or debs which handle a lot of stuff makepkg simply does not. With a proper deb you can do partial updates and won't end up in a state where you can't run an application because it's trying to use older ABI-incompatible versions of libraries than the ones you have presently installed. On Arch, it's very common - you're always expected to update the whole system in sync, and if you install a thing without updating the whole system first things will often go wrong. debs are complex because they're solving complex issues which makepkg does not even try to solve, otherwise it wouldn't be as easy.