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by herpderperator 3172 days ago
I did something like this (shared kernel and chroot) on an old Nexus S back in 2012 with Gentoo. You can use a precompiled stage3 tarball which contains the fundamental filesystem layout and utilities (for the target architecture), and then for anything else that you need, you just use Portage (Gentoo's package manager) to compile stuff for you. Not super practical in terms of battery life and time if you're constantly compiling packages but a cool project nonetheless. This wasn't the exact guide I used, but it's the same idea: http://thinkmoult.com/installing-gentoo-android-chroot/
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Very cool thanks for sharing!

> Not super practical in terms of battery life

Samsung avoided this problem by requiring that the phone is connected to the dock that is also charging it.