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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Installing an uninstalling application on linux is the province of your linux distro, I provide the binary packages as a courtesy. Go complain to your distro maintainers about why they don't have a calibre package for their distros, or better yet create one yourself and send it to them for inclusion.
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This would be valid if you provided just source. I have no problem building and installing from source. But you also provide your OWN installation format, the binary installer. If you provide your own specific format for installation, that format should ideally also support removal.
At the very least, why don't you just state on the download page that the binary installer will require manual removal?
As for the community packaging it for you, I will probably do this, although your pugnacious tone is no real motivation. Did you approach any users in your community about being package maintainers for their distributions?