One of the biggest differences between Arch and Debian is that the configuration in Arch is left up to you. This dramatically simplifies the dependencies. In De

One of the biggest differences between Arch and Debian is that the configuration in Arch is left up to you. This dramatically simplifies the dependencies. In Debian you often run into circumstances where a very large number of people want related apps to be set up to communicate with each other. Even if you don't want the dependency you are kind of stuck with it because otherwise the configuration is broken. Then the dependencies bring in other popular dependencies and in the end you can get a bit of a mess.