I really miss maemo, it was pretty much what you&#x27;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.<p>In addition to the problems you describe with google moving more core functionality into its &quot;Google Apps&quot; packages, it also means that running android without the google bits is getting increasingly hard. It&#x27;s missing some core functionality that other non-google apps expect.