I just migrated from a full core installation, which was a pain to maintain, to a container installation which has been working perfectly.
I have a question regarding the way python dependencies/packages for HA are stored in the container. I’m talking about the dependencies that HA will install when it needs to set up a new integration or something like that, so not the default python dependencies that are needed to run HA in the first place.
When using core in a venv the dependecies are installed directly in the virtual environment folder. Instead, if the default python is used, the dependencies get installed in the /config directory (inside /config/deps). This was the case for my previous core installation.
I think this was also the case for this container, as I see on the release notes that after version 13.02.24 the dependencies location was moved out from the /config directory. In fact, poking inside the container, they seem to be installed in /usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages, as for a default system python installation.
Can I ask what is the rationale behind this? Doesn’t this mean that the depencies will need to be re-installed every time the container is either restarted or updated as they’re not stored in the only non-ephemereal storage for this container (the /config directory)? I can imagine this to be a problem for installations that have many different integrations. Or am I interpreting this wrong?
Thanks and keep up the good work