[busterarm]

I'm not trying to counter your argument because you're totally right, but Arch pretty much exactly matches Slackware on points 1, 3 and 4.

[venomsnake]

Depends on the packages - in AUR land where people thing it is GREAT idea of cloning the git repo instead of some fixed revision there are many times when trying to build something you see

hunk XX of something failed, aborting.

[busterarm]

Yeah but that's under point 2, which I left out. :D