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by eptcyka 1486 days ago
Thank you for clarifying, I couldn't find the relevant issues in the nixpkgs GitHub. I understand your position, however, having used HomeAssistant on NixOS, it was as turn-key as many other of the more complex services that are packaged for NixOS - that is to say, there was a slight whackamole of deducing which dependencies needed to be installed for which plugins. This is something one would expect when using NixOS. I use NixOS for turn-key reproducibility and not turn-key setup, and I don't know of any NixOS user today who'd expect software to work on NixOS out of the box. Not unlike Steam and various other big applications that target specific distros often don't work great as turn-key solutions on the less popular distributions, such as Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and debian derivatives.