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rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?

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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages?

rah@feddit.uk to homeassistant@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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    the Home Assistant .deb distro package

    Firstly, that’s a .deb but it’s not from a distro. Secondly, that .deb doesn’t contain Home Assistant, it contains a Supervised which runs the Home Assistant Docker container:

    https://github.com/home-assistant/supervised-installer/blob/8dbfda2221b955dc810827285c5ac874eb0b70d9/homeassistant-supervised/usr/bin/ha#L10

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