[Android-tools-devel] Bug#827646: Bug#827646: apktool: refer directly to framework-res.apk from android-framework-res

[Chirayu Desai]

Hi,

I have opened a discussion with the maintainer at [1].

Cheers,
Chirayu Desai

[1]: https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/issues/1277

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: apktool
> Severity: wishlist
> Usertags: cruft
>
> Currently [1] is copied to [2]. It would be nice if apktool could refer
> to [2] directly instead of copying it over to my home directory, which
> is a waste of disk space and is crufty. I worked around the disk usage
> by making it a symlink but I still have the cruft there.
>
> I recommend two actions here:
>
> Make the code create a symlink on filesystems where that is possible
> and copy the file where that is not possible.
>
> Talk to upstream about having predefined frameworks available at paths
> defined at build time that don't get copied around.
>
>    1. /usr/share/android-framework-res/framework-res.apk
>    2. /home/pabs/.local/share/apktool/framework/1.apk
>
> --
>
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
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