What makes Arch stand out?

I have heard people talk about Arch a lot, but have never been able to figure out what makes it different from other distros.  I am interested in trying it out but I would like to learn a bit more about it first.  People talk a lot about how great the Pacman package manager is, but I haven't been able to figure out what is really unique about Pacman based on the things I have read about it?  What are the similarities and differences that make it stand out from other package managers?
I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time but I would like to find something I like a bit better.  I have used Gentoo for a little while and I like it, but compiling everything from source is time consuming.  I would really like something that gives the user a similar level of control but without having to compile everything.  I generally find myself using default options for compiling anyway, so I don't feel like it's really worth it.  I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want to use something that's more for advanced users than Ubuntu is, but doesn't require you to wait for packages to compile every time you want to make a change to the system.  Am I right to think that Arch may be what I'm looking for?  Does anyone have any opinions on what makes Arch really stand out aside from Pacman?

bananaoomarang wrote:PAcman is brilliant because it's light and featurefull and manages my system perfect;y.
No it isn't. Try replacing openjdk with sun's jre. Pacman can't do that when something is installed that depends on java-environment even when both packages provide it.
In fact I consider pacman to be the only thing that really needs improvement:
The "database" is the filesystem which makes the first reading of the database extremely slow until it is in cache.
Pacman really has problems with handling dependencies of dependencies, the user often has to do it himself instead of pacman offering some sane options.
Other than that Pacman is great: It is fast when the database is in ram and it's not bloated like the package manager on other Distributions (rpm on fedora *caugh*).
What makes Arch stand out is the extremely good Rolling Release: I used ubuntu before and you maybe know about the time when there was this discussion about open office 3 and firefox 3 not going into the release version... With time it were simply too much applications that were hold back. You may also remember the brasero 0-byte-free bug, where many people could not burn with brasero for 6 months because Ubuntu refused to put the fixed version in the repos.
Another thing is the init system. I never quite understood all these /etc/rc.* things and how they are configured correctly. There are some hacks like the rcconf program, but nothing compares to the simplicity and sanity of rc.conf + /etc/rc.d/
Anything that comes from the Archlinux project is simple and fun to use. Try building a sane package for debian - that's the opposite of fun.
Try building a package for Archlinux: Write a pkgbuild and it just works.

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