“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

Re:“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” by Ericson2314 on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:09PM (#27507627)

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.

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Re:“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” by lesto on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:13PM (#27507686)

> 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

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Re:“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” by Ericson2314 on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:19PM (#27507765)

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.

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Re:“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:35PM (#27508620)

There's literally a comment in there about Fedora having packaged it.

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Re:“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” by Ericson2314 on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:04PM (#27508908)

I'm glad to be wrong! Does fedora package all the python libs separately, or allow the deps to be vendored in this case?

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