Comment by Denvercoder9
5 years ago
I think the greater context is that the Home Assistant developers are somewhat hostile to people running, and especially packaging, their software outside of their own supported methods (which are Docker containers or their own full OS). It's somewhat understandable as it creates a support burden for them, but especially given the enthusiast nature of the community this doesn't seem like a smart decision. There's been some outrage in the community about the developers deprecating platforms before.
> I think the greater context is that the Home Assistant developers are somewhat hostile to people running, and especially packaging, their software outside of their own supported methods..
The person proposing the Nix package is a Home assistant developer afaik, so that would be weird.
Well, Home Assistant is a large project with lots of contributors, so it's not surprising that its developers don't have a singular opinion. However, this is the impression I get from the official announcements and other interactions I've seen on GitHub.
Another incident was when they deprecated/unsupported installing it on a generic Linux install last year, which they had to (somewhat) back down from after community outrage.
Yes, fabaff is a bigger home-assistant contributor to my knowledge and started to help out packaging a lot of the missing python libraries for NixOS.