The tedious thing about Arch is updating and if you don't you could run out of room if HD tight or other glitch; apart from that and recent grub issue (reporting of grub breaking OS) ,its been fine.
Yeh, was a little late to the show and maybe a little snarky, too.
When I was using nothing but true Debian-based distros going back to aptosid, I used Stable repos once and never again. Stable is a stick-in-the-mud control package set at the end of the testing cycle and it does not have what I want in software choices. Sid had what I wanted, even more than what the Testing repos held.
pacman is a dream i don't remember any quotes including the text " --fix-missing" so far ; i do however see "checking for incompatibilities" when pacman runs.
Slackware is also sane , never had one instance of dependency hell , but thats because it was mostly down to me , to make sure dependencies were met and installed in right order i'm referencing slackbuilds here. BUT it was ever so a little tedious to be honest .