more work done... still 100% untested, and i need to finish the package lists, but i have a testing platform built for all the distros.

lib/prereqs/Arch/meta

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 NAME='Arch'
 SUPPORTED='yes'
-CHECK_METHOD='egrep "^NAME=\"Arch Linux\"" /etc/os-release'
-PKG_MGR='pacman --noconfirm -S ${pkgname}'
+CHECK_METHOD='egrep "^NAME=\"Arch Linux\"$" /etc/os-release'
+PKG_MGR='pacman -S --needed --noconfirm ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='pacman -Syyy'
 PKG_CHK='pacman -Q ${pkgname}'
 URL='https://www.archlinux.org/'

lib/prereqs/Arch/pkgs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+binutils
+curl
+gcc-libs-multilib
+gcc-multilib
+git
+libisoburn
+lynx
+make
+patch
+perl
+rsync
+sed
+squashfs-tools
+syslinux
+xorriso
+xz
+zlib