diff --git a/pages/download.txt b/pages/download.txt
index 5339c2bf2..94c95bb24 100644
--- a/pages/download.txt
+++ b/pages/download.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ We place all of our releases here:
 
 ==== Releases ====
 
-Our latest releases are:
+Our latest source code releases are:
 
 {{page>download-latest}}
 
+We provide original source code "tarballs" as the canonical release of what we make. It is left up to distributions and individuals to make specific packages to their operating system. See your distribution packages for details.
+
 When compiling from source, build in this order:
 
 {{page>docs-efl-buildorder}}