So I have a longish list of nifty packages useful for doing the sort of
programming we do here...

So as part of our "Set up a new developers box" process we install all of
them.

Alas, it wasn't nearly as simple as replacing apt-get install with pacman
--sync to translate to Arch.

Major differences...

 * Ubuntu splits things into library, library-dev and libary-doc. Arch
doesn't. It's just library.
 * Ubuntu maintains old versions of autotools, flex, python, tcl, .... for
the sound reason that not every program out there can be updated. Arch
doesn't.
   It's whatever latest and you probably have d/load and build anything
ancient yourself. (Which can be a swine if it depends on ancient build
tools etc.)
* Arch list didn't seem to have
# cccc
# exim4
# filelight
#  global

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