Installers aren't typically used on GNU/Linux (only by companies that don't understand what they're doing on that platform, actually). A simple tarball should do fine (and would make it easy for distro's to roll their own packages)

* as usual this is imho (unless stated otherwise); feel free to disagree, ignore or try to change my mind. Agreeing with me is ofc also allowed, but makes for much worse flamewarsarguments.

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