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[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:40 +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> That said, you're free to make your device's rootfs writable and use
> apt/dpkg to install regular .deb packages. It's not a supported way of
> working, your mileage may vary and you might lose the installed items
> during an OTA.

It is better instead, to create a chroot of Ubuntu in the home directory
on the phone, and then install whatever console tools one thinks they
need to run a phone, in that chroot. Please suggest that instead of
making the root fs writable, as the latter will very quickly result in a
filled root partition, and depending on what gets installed, may cause
other issues in the system (which is of course, why it is unsupported),
for people who think they need to install such packages. :)

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