Hi,

I'd love to add Home assistant to Guix to liberate our homes :-D

However, it has one nasty problem. There's one Python module 'orjson' which depends on rust package [1]. Since it would mean to add a lot of Rust packages I'd like to ask for help if there isn't a better way to build the package 'orjson'? [2]

FIY Marius I saw you patch set where you mentioned module 'orjson' as test dependency [3]

Just out of curiosity have you been able to package the Home assistant? [4]

$ /gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/bin/hass
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/bin/.hass-real", line 5, in <module>
    sys.exit (mod.main ())
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/__main__.py", line 169, in main
    args = get_arguments()
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/__main__.py", line 69, in get_arguments
    from . import config as config_util
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/config.py", line 20, in <module>
    from . import auth
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/auth/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
    from homeassistant import data_entry_flow
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/data_entry_flow.py", line 16, in <module>
    from .core import HomeAssistant, callback
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 46, in <module>
    from . import block_async_io, loader, util
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/loader.py", line 34, in <module>
    from .helpers.json import JSON_DECODE_EXCEPTIONS, json_loads
  File "/gnu/store/8dgdzxj7vvawbd77q405fbjm4rnjdxld-homeassistant-2022.12.8/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/json.py", line 7, in <module>
    import orjson
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'orjson'

1 https://github.com/PyO3/maturin
2 https://github.com/ijl/orjson/blob/master/pyproject.toml
3 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58587
4 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/packaging-home-assistant-into-guix/264117


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Petr