CFLAGS JUST KICKED IN, YO

I am running Gentoo Linux with mad CFLAGS. It is the best distro.

Discuss.

I installed Arch last night. It's fucking shit! I used pacman to install irssi, irssi wouldn't start because perl wasn't installed. So I had to pacman -S perl. What happened to dependency handling? Give me one good reason why I should use Arch instead of, say, Debian, which is known for its ability to actually handle deps most of the time.