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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm sure you're right, but there must be some advantage to distributing a custom-configured/compiled version of Qt5 to platforms to that already have (or can easily get) a version that can work equally well, no?
Don't get me wrong; I'm no Linux purist. I'm perfectly fine with packaging custom system libs like Qt up with software installation programs on Linux platforms, but I'm going to assume it's being done for something other than practice.
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Yes, the advantage is that it has all been tested and works
whereas packagers can introduce bugs through *well-intentioned* changes. So no matter where your distro is or what they do or how much they tend to laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag, calibre works and is at the latest version, without clashing with anything else. Most packages IMHO could use a version like that, especially what with most distros freezing the system at a certain point.
Which is basically what this thread is about.
Just pointing out that Kovid hasn't gone on a rampage trying to make it hard for downstream packagers. He lets them make their own problems if they wish.
And FWIW, I use Kovid's binaries, despite using Arch Linux (a bleeding-edge distro) and will continue to do so until the repo maintainers fix a stupid packaging bug and I can trust it will work properly.