← Back to context

Comment by Ericson2314

5 years ago

I often have a sinking feeling the free software world is going to fall apart because upstream developers don't know what the distro is even for (curation, consistency, etc.), and legacy distro downstream developers haven't kept up with any of the development rends in recent years (good or bad).

The Nix community is one of the few that has feet in both camps, so it's all the more frustrating to see a stupid reaction like this; a traditionally distro wouldn't even bother packaging any of this stuff or engage at all.

4 comments

Ericson2314

Reply
lesto  5 years ago

> a traditionally distro wouldn't even bother packaging any of this stuff or engage at all.

unfortunately the library author made a PR to Home Assistant, a program that is packaged in many distro; all those distro will add his package. see https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/51645

  • Ericson2314  5 years ago

    Is home-assistant packaged in any traditional distro like Debian or Fedora? I didn't think so.

    So long as everyone is supposed to just grab some docker container or OS image from the home-assistent people, the traditional distros that should back up NixOS here won't even be looped in.