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rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?

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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?

rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    1 year ago

    Do you have some links to read up on that? I saw the Nix stuff. And the Home Assistant devs seem pretty alright to me. Sometimes they make decisions which I don’t understand. But I’d like to know what kind of internet drama surrounds this…

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      This isn’t the very beginning, but a lot of the discussion can be read here - https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-adding-library-dependencies-from-frenck/315185

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        Ah thx, I think I read that back then… Pretty annoying.

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