[Milhouse]

Sure, but not every Raspberry Pi user is as comfortable with Linux and third party repositories as more advanced users - even copy/pasting a few commands can be rather daunting when the user doesn't know what they're doing and might be concerned their actions will trash their new system.

So it would be nice to have a stable, supported build from the standard Raspbian repositories. Custom and bleeding edge builds could still come from third-party repos, catering the more advanced/adventurous crowd.

I'm really not sure why more recent versions of XBMC/Kodi haven't made it into the standard repositories, I wonder if there's a lot of tinkering required to make it build which has often been a problem with large packages in the past.