[hollerith]

It is hard to see what your comment has to do with Arch Linux since it is neither a compile.everything nor an rpm-based system.

But yeah, for users willing to adapt themselves to a system, as opposed to adapting the system to their desires, the debian-based distros are probably the best Linux distros.

[rufugee]

My comment was in response to "avoid all the hoop jumping other distributions make you do in order to keep their package managers happy, while still giving you all the benefits". Personally, I believe those hoops to be a myth.