Arch vs BSD

Question

In Wikipedia describing the features of Arch is that it uses a BSD-style init framework. Today I read in DistroWatch about "compare and contrast BSD Ports and Linux package management", doesn't Arch has another BSD feature as well.
The ports system provides Makefiles, allowing you to pass make targets and compile your own software. The packages system provides pre-compiled binaries, allowing you to quickly install software from the command line.
.... supports both compile-your-own and installing pre-compiled software using command-line tools.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100906#qa

Answer 1

fukawi2 wrote:
litemotiv wrote:
.:B:. wrote:I have never seen a Linux distro make compiling your own packages instead of using the stock binary ones as easy as Arch. ABS is a real framework, all you have to do is run 'abs' in your terminal and you'll pull in all the PKGBUILDs, patches etc. necessary for rebuilding every single package in the Arch repositories.
Ubuntu:
$ apt-get build-dep $package // builds dependencies of package
$ apt-get source $package // get source of any package in repositories
$ checkinstall // create .deb from source directory
makepkg -is
Arch outsimples by 3:1
Well technically it would be more like this.
sudo abs
cd /var/abs/$repo/$pkgname
makepkg -is