Replicant

h1. ReplicantDecisions

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h2. Technical

h3. Moving vendor/lineage to vendor/replicant for Replicant >= 10

*Background infos:*

* We can't simply symlink vendor/replicant to vendor/lineageOS since some files would be included twice otherwise.

*For*:

* Consistent with previous Replicant versions

* The build scripts are in vendor/replicant and already mentioned in the build tutorials

*Against*:

* Lowers the amount of maintenance and the amount of work for keeping the current version up to date and to make new Replicant version in a very significative way:

** Moving it would require to fork many repository just for changing the path to vendor/replicant

** All the repositories will need to be rebased or merged which is time consuming

** Rebasing vendor/replicant itself is usually a pain because of the numerous changes just to change vendor/lineage to vendor/replicant but also because of some variable names changes from LINEAGE/LINEAGEOS to REPLICANT.

*Result:* Decided against moving it

*Rationale*:

* Lowering the cost of maintenance was more important than the short term convenience gained by having it in vendor/replicant

* We will try to find other ways to have the scripts in vendor/replicant (and only the scripts)