[darklajid]

I'm confused why you're trying to educate me about Arch. And you're confusing things (maybe you think of Gentoo? That one is "mostly from source, can support binaries").

Yes, ABS is used to build binary Arch Linux packages from sources. But that's unrelated. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, Suse - all of these do the same: Grab the sources, build binary packages. Whether you're using ABS or build rpms from a specfile doesn't matter for the discussion about upstream's (lack of!) responsibility to provide binary packages for random distributions.

So yes .. Arch is, for the sake of this discussion, working exactly like Debian/Fedora/Suse etc: The distribution (pick any from that list or any major distribution you can come up with) takes the pinta sources and builds a package from that. The end user installs a (binary) package using the distribution's package management facilities without ever touching the pinta source. The package comes directly from the distribution's infrastructure and not pinta's project site.

[baldfat]

Okay you see apples I see oranges. I find packaging for Arch's port system to be pretty fundamentally different then for the binaries of RPM or Deb but its okay.

I still stand by the need to provide RPM, Deb and Source for your project to be called Linux supported. Also Ubunutu does not equal Linux.

Here is VS Code as an example https://code.visualstudio.com/?utm_expid=101350005-28.R1T8Fs...