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

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

LOL

They already pay attention to deployment and support several methods. Sure it's not the method you have in mind. But the world doesn't specifically revolve around you.

It's not my method. Writing software with distributions in mind is the standard in free software development.

It's just not easy.

Indeed. That's why many engineers don't bother. Especially poor engineers.

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. They could have chosen to create distro packages instead, or at least software which is amenable to being packaged by distros.

obsolete

What does that mean in the context of Home Assistant?

A lot of software isn't packaged for Debian.

Yes, often projects which are engineered without distros in mind. Which is to say, engineered poorly.

You didn't mention in your OP that it had to be debian distro packages.

It doesn't. WTF are you talking about?

That's manual installation which is (a) not distro packages and (b) exactly what distro packages are created to avoid.

docker images

Is not distro packages.

Arch Linux

It's not in Debian. There's no Red Hat packages either. Or OpenSUSE. It's not even in OpenWrt which would make the most sense. So it looks like no useful, practical distro packages.

pip

Is not distro packages.

What do you mean with "Operating System"?

If I go to

https://www.home-assistant.io/

and click on "Installation", ignoring the custom Home Assistant hardware, the first relevant section is "DIY with Raspberry Pi" whose tutorial has a section "Install Home Assistant Operating System".

The second relevant section of the Installation page is "Install on other hardware" with a paragraph whose second sentence is "The Home Assistant Operating System allows you to install Home Assistant on these devices even if you have little to no Linux experience."

all the add-ons and extra user stuff

You're hand-waving the answer to my question :-) What add-ons and extra user stuff require Home Assistant to be an OS?

If you did all that as a package install, you would complain about all the dependancies and if you didnt install the right version of something Home Assistant might not work at all

That's not how packages work. The packagers take care of all that. That's the point.

How on Earth did the woman "uncover" a mass grave? No details at all in the article. Typical BBC crap.

There's a gay Vulcan character in the New Frontier book series (U.S.S. Excalibur). From what I recall, there were no social issues but the guy's father disapproved due to "a waste of good genetic material" :-)

I think you've confused what "male gaze" refers to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_gaze

No. Unfortunately Tricky Dicky's vote-winning "war on drugs" put paid to what used to be referred to as "the British system" where GPs could prescribe substances to those suffering with addiction in order to remove the pressure (on the addict as well as society as a whole) of acquiring the substance. Alas.

Finally!

A vocal critic of NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine

Stopped reading there.

This isn't a supercut, this is some guy talking over a supercut. Pfft.

you're attributing those views to "the citizenry"

I haven't attributed anything to the citizenry. I wrote two distinct paragraphs, only one of which contained the word "citizenry".

the article

Again, I wasn't talking about the article.

at the scale of the current riots and violence

You never mentioned scale. You've introduced a new concept. You're shifting the goal posts.

What other comparison is there? suggest a different comparison

Why is making a comparison important?