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I really miss maemo, it was pretty much what you're describing. Being able to rebuild packages directly from the debian archive if I wanted some new software, o

I really miss maemo, it was pretty much what you're describing. Being able to rebuild packages directly from the debian archive if I wanted some new software, or patch some system software and put it in my own APT repository, are things I really liked. In addition to the problems you describe with google moving more core functionality into its "Google Apps" packages, it also means that running android without the google bits is getting increasingly hard. It's missing some core functionality that other non-google apps expect.

bmn_ 11y ago
Get a Nemo or Sailfish device. http://enwp.org/File:Mer_and_mobile_operating_systems.svg http://enwp.org/File:Mer_and_mobile_operating_systems.svg Public build service is https://openrepos.net/ https://openrepos.net/ and it already has lots of packages that you know from a normal Linux desktop and you can also host your custom stuff there. High-level package manager is packagekit or zypper. Having a private repo is easy, too. Package format is RPM, repo format is http://createrepo.baseurl.org/ http://createrepo.baseurl.org/