[pxc]

It's been ~11 years since I used a distro based on pacman as a daily driver, and I was very harsh on pacman at the time. It seemed to lag behind the high-level package management tools of contemporaneous distros in terms of flexibility (and, once you had a lot of things installed, performance).

But I never, ever had it just fail to install a package, and I don't remember much fuss with dependency resolution taking manual fiddling, either.

I'd love to hear your pacman horror stories; gimme the hot package manager gossip :D

[Flex247A]

The way pacman installs new kernels by default is just replacing the old package with the new one. This is bad because if for some reason the new kernel package gets corrupted, the system will fail to boot, and you will have to arch-chroot into the system to install the kernel again. Fedora on the other hand keeps old kernels for some time before removing them.