On 30/10/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Google supplies Chrome as a Debian package, in a private repository. It doesn't use snap or flatpak.
My bad. I have chromium installed from Debian and I expected that vendors of proprietary soft prefer snap and flatpak to native packages.
<https://flathub.org/apps/com.google.Chrome>
NOTE: This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by Google.
is built from .deb <https://github.com/flathub/com.google.Chrome/blob/master/com.google.Chrome.yaml>
hobbit:~$ dpkg -s google-chrome-stable | grep Depends
Unlike chromium it does not depend on xdg-desktop-portal-backend.
Google may be guilty of many sins, but providing a package that uses snap or flatpak isn't one of them. At least, not in this case.
.deb from Google may be intrusive. Around 2012 I had Google Earth installed. It was a wonderful app to promptly cause a hang in Intel i915 KMS driver. At certain moment I removed the package and the apt source for it. Next day repository URL appeared again in "apt-get update" messages. Package script injected a cron script that daily updated its source list. I can not say whether it was a conf file and my fault was that I just removed the package, not purged it.
