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
There’s always Nix but the dev behind HA has a personal vendetta against Nix people building his software (for some ridiculously stupid reason). We packaged home assistant in nixpkgs anyway because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
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 :-(
IMO, I think it would be wise for the community to fork and move away from his (utterly ubiquitous) project before it is too late. Lest we get another “OpenAI” or Raspberry Pi IPO.
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…
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.
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
There’s always Nix but the dev behind HA has a personal vendetta against Nix people building his software (for some ridiculously stupid reason). We packaged home assistant in nixpkgs anyway because we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
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 :-(
IMO, I think it would be wise for the community to fork and move away from his (utterly ubiquitous) project before it is too late. Lest we get another “OpenAI” or Raspberry Pi IPO.
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…
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
Ah thx, I think I read that back then… Pretty annoying.
You’re hand-waving the answer to my question :-) What add-ons and extra user stuff require Home Assistant to be an OS?
That’s not how packages work. The packagers take care of all that. That’s the point.