I am building the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) from source for the Pine 64 board using the community v6 version. One of the things I needed to do was remove the GoogleHome launcher from the build. I found I had to edit this file:
device/softwinner/tulip-chiphd/device.mk
by adding the following line:
GAPPS_EXCLUDED_PACKAGES := GoogleHome
Since I’m including my own launcher, I also wanted to remove Launcher2 and Launcher3 which I did by editing this file:
.repo/local_manifests/default.xml
And adding these line:
<remove-project name="platform/packages/apps/Launcher2" />
<remove-project name="platform/packages/apps/Launcher3" />