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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by rah@feddit.uk to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 10 months ago

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