I find it odd that people seem unaware of build-dep, and downloading the source....

I find it odd that people seem unaware of build-dep, and downloading the source.

I'm not a developer (I do data analysis), but compiling Emacs from source on Ubuntu (after running build-dep emacs24) has never caused me problems.

But hey, I'm sure Arch is awesome, and if I had more time I'd totally be running it.