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authorDenis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>2019-12-14 22:24:03 +0100
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Android Open Source Project (AOSP)'s build system differs greatly from other
-GNU/Linux based distros: software components are built and bundled together into
+GNU/Linux based distribution: software components are built and bundled together into
a single image without using any package manager during the build process; external
software components are also tasked with maintaining support for AOSP build system
-themselves. Replicant, a fully free AOSP distribution, aims to foster a discussion
-with other projects and the community on sustainable ways to achieve an AOSP build
-that properly incorporates GNU/Linux projects such as Linux and Mesa.
+themselves. Theses differences creates some extremely serious issues that also affect
+Replicant, a fully free software Android distribution. To solve that, we aims to foster
+a discussion with other projects and the community on sustainable ways to achieve an
+AOSP build that properly incorporates GNU/Linux projects such as Linux and Mesa.
+This talk might also be interesting to people packaging Android utilities like adb in
+GNU/Linux distributions, as they also have to deal with some of the issues created by
+the Android build system.