I didn't realize there was a religious battle on the horizon, I just think I was maybe mildly unclear, and this is bordering on the semantically dull.
Just saying, Kovid has an official "INSTALL" readme which says, in part:
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Originally Posted by git/calibre/INSTALL
calibre supports installation from source, only on Linux.
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On Linux, there are two kinds of installation from source possible.
Note that both kinds require lots of dependencies as well as a
full development environment (compilers, headers files, etc.)
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Trying to build any package with different software versions than the ones tested upstream sometimes results in bugs, which hopefully get fixed upstream, and says nothing either for or against downstream packaging.
All I said was you get the same results Kovid would get, in a very duplicable manner.
Not that there will never be bugs.
(And whenever he may decide to upgrade the Qt that calibre shipped, he'd get the same error, very duplicable.)
So it is perfectly possible to run that perfect Arch Linux calibre-from-source build, assuming you use the same versions of stuff and nothing was broken downstream, etc... all of which are reasons to let distro maintainers slave away to test things (or not), or use Kovid's binaries.
