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Why is Home Assistant an operating system and not an application installable through distro packages? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 2 months ago by rah to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] rah -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 some "Supervised" which runs the Home Assistant Docker container:

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