UnifiedNlp VS charter

Hello, I'm trying to add microG to my OS by following the microG wiki (very well written!) However, I'm not able to add the additional patch(https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp/blob/master/patches/android_frameworks_base-N.patch) to make location work (mentioned here - https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Installation)

https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp - acts as a middle ware for multiple backends which have network location features.

MicroG has a list of NLP modules. Afaik it doesn't harm having several installed and working concurrently. The list here: https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp

Get UnifiedNLP - essentially does Locations services but not google

Another option would be to use an other location provider than google, like unifiedNLP.

I assume you are talking about microG. I have no personal experience with this because I've always just installed Gapps, but I wasn't under the impression UnifiedNLP or similar required microG. The installation instructions for UnifiedNLP just talk about downloading a couple APKs, and maybe installing as system apps (https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp/blob/HEAD/README.md). I do see that the app itself is made by the microG project, but it does make the claim (in several places I've found while searching) that "most" ROMs support it. What am I missing?

Here's a link to more location backends, you can rule out 4 or 5 since some are old and others are for China.

LineageOS is volunteer produced and maintained, and outside of the device support charter requirements are necessarily expected to be free of bug or error in any given build.

If it's not there (it's not) and you want it to be, feel free to submit a port once you've got one to meet the device requirements and decided you'd like to maintain it.

Everything works linked to https://github.com/LineageOS/charter/blob/master/device-support-requirements.md

LineageOS introduced a "Device Support Requirements" a few years ago. I think that's when they changed their focus to stability over anything else.

Unofficial LineageOS does not have to meet the strict LineageOS Device Support Requirements Charter

Learn everything required to generate a build that satisfies the device requirements, then sign up to be a maintainer for that device and maintain the build

It's essentially stock Android - be ready to lose some OxygenOS features - but they're rock solid on the devices I use official builds (eg: OnePlus 8 Pro, same maintainer as the 7 Pro). And it's important to use official builds because they need to comply with this long list of requirements, reducing the number of things that don't work.

You'd have to either wait for a volunteer maintainer to get a device-specific build up to the requirements, or become that volunteer maintainer yourself.

Referring to LineageOS Device Support Requirements Charter.