[pengaru]

Arch's package management tooling is a bit of an unconsolidated inconsistent mess.

As someone who used Debian for decades before experimenting with Arch on my laptop for a few years now, Debian is far more polished and ergonomic in the package tooling.

[activiation]

Not sure why you are saying that... What is the issue exactly?

[pengaru]

The ability to install a source package for what's installed isn't even included in the distro's package tooling out of the box.

Coming from Debian you'd expect `pacman` to support doing this, let alone at least say something about it in its man page.

I'm not even sure how the hell you'd figure out `asp` exists and is something you need to explicitly install if all you knew is `pacman`, without using internet searches as an escape hatch.

There was a time long ago when most distros were a hodge podge of work-in-progress discrete tools you had to discover the names of and install separately. Using Arch feels like going back decades in this regard, not in a good way. It's unclear to me why they haven't worked on consolidating these components into a cohesive entrypoint making everything discoverable and more uniform in their UX.