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Ubuntu Chromium DEB file are actually snap wrapper

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:22:25 +0800

The screenshot taken is the latest rev:head (currently when the post published) of chromium-browser/focal package files repository. I really surprise about this kind of packaging. Oh my God, how comes this is allowable?

Seems it start putting and using wrapper to use snap on rev:1505, correct me if I wrong because I don’t use bazaar source code management so much compare to cvs, mercurial and git.

Control Your Snap Package

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:56:57 +0800

Press here to skip the rant

I checking my email today and saw Bret Busby posted on Ubuntu-users mailing-list asking about “How do we disable the snap stuff” and likely it trigger some Ubuntu kipas-susah-mati replies when he typed:

As this snap stuff can not be trusted to not make unauthorised changes , and, cannot be trusted to not sabotage the system operation (this unauthorised snap interference probably explains the error messages that I have been getting, about incomplete and partial upgrades and resultant systems instability across my systems), how do we disable this malicious snap thing?