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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Home Assistant has a lot of moving parts, all the add-ons and extra user stuff. So they provide a docker image with everything you need, they also provide a full appliance install for easy setup.

If you did all that as a package install, you would complain about all the dependancies and if you didnt install the right version of something Home Assistant might not work at all

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] [S] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He alone has behaved like a child, dragging his end users along with him in his over-reliance on one failure point for his entire distribution system

    Yeah, this is exactly as expected. Someone with poor engineering skills finding themselves in a position of power and making sure everyone knows they're king of the hill. See this kind of thing all the time unfortunately :-(

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  • [+] [S] -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    all the add-ons and extra user stuff

    You're hand-waving the answer to my question :-) What add-ons and extra user stuff require Home Assistant to be an OS?

    If you did all that as a package install, you would complain about all the dependancies and if you didnt install the right version of something Home Assistant might not work at all

    That's not how packages work. The packagers take care of all that. That's the point.

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