Sensibly, Arch includes vim. At least it's not forcing us to use 'nano'.
However, package installs were problematic.
# pacman -S mlocate
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (6): bash-4.2.045-1 filesystem-2013.03-2 glibc-2.17-5 libarchive-3.1.2-1 linux-api-headers-3.8.4-1 pacman-4.1.0-2
Total Installed Size: 51.14 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -0.99 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(6/6) checking package integrity [##########################################################################] 100%
(6/6) loading package files [##########################################################################] 100%
(6/6) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
filesystem: /usr/share/man/man7/archlinux.7.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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These are not the sorts of problems I enjoy - it's a relatively pointless challenge to figure out how to use something that doesn't seem to want to be used.
Searching about on the internet for answers was no more enjoyable, and just as fruitless. Evidently, people who are expert with arch wish to remain an exclusive club, and have little interest in communicating HOW to use the package manager or otherwise become proficient with the distro.
I can't say that I would recommend Arch, based on my experiences with it to date.
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