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> Any full uninstall of a system app would require remounting /system as rw.

Why do Google Apps have to be installed to the system partition anyway?

I have tried several email clients and image viewers from Google's app store, — all of them work fine without being system apps.

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The system partition is simply the factory image, nothing more nothing less. It doesn't inherently mean privileged, either. There's 2 different app locations in the system partition, 1 for real system apps with system privileges (/system/priv-app) and one for just preinstalled stuff with the same privileges you'd get from installing from the play store (/system/app)

So will they be present after a full device reset. The alternative's to download them after reset. But that would not always work if you were in an area with a bad connection.

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