rahWhy is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?
You should ask this to your favourite distro packagers, not to the home assistant developers.
In any case, it is such a mess of dependencies due to load of optional packages, very active development, that continuously break dependencies on the package repo.
What advantage would bring have a most of the time obsolete distro specific repo? On a maintainer POV this is the typical use case for distro agnostic deployment, maybe flatpak, maybe docker.
You should ask this to your favourite distro packagers, not to the home assistant developers.
I disagree. The Home Assistant developers are the ones who chose to create an OS rather than distro packages. Or at least software which is amenable to being packaged by distros.
Since HA depends on a lot of python packages, on external softwares and libraries it could not feasible to ensure that the versions packaged with the distribution will always be in line with those needed by HA
it could not feasible
I disagree.
Well, good for you. Now let’s prove it
You first.
OsunderdogThen go do it.
I’m not a Debian Developer and won’t become one: settrans.net/~rah/why-not-debian.html
Then do if for your distribution then. It’s clearly not that difficult, you’ve all but clearly stated as much.
Then do if for your distribution then.
I use Debian.
It’s clearly not that difficult, you’ve all but explicitly stated as much.
I have not said that, or anything like it.
So then it isn’t actually that feasible then, otherwise you’d do more than just whine about it on the Internet.
it isn’t actually that feasible then, otherwise you’d do more than just whine about it on the Internet
So let me get your logic straight: you’re saying that it isn’t feasible because if it were feasible then a person who could do it would necessarily do it? LOL that makes no sense.
Well, yeah. Especially when you’ve already been given reasons why it isn’t. But clearly you know better than the devs or people familiar with the product.
Well, yeah.
Why do you think that because a person can do something they necessarily will?
Why do you think that because a person could do something they necessarily will?
Because the task is infeasible to support? Kinda like you’ve been arguing against this entire time in the face of multiple reasons why people aren’t doing it.
No one is saying it is impossible, just not something that’s feasible to create and support. This really should not be this hard of a concept to understand.
in this case, we know it’s not because they got rid of that option. Why? Because the task is infeasible to support.
You’re not making any sense.
the devs no longer offer it as a supported method
Are you saying that the Home Assistant developers used to support distro packages?
No one is saying it is impossible
OP is saying that. They said it was “infeasible”.