Re:Google Chrome
On Sunday 14 June 2009 19:50:14 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
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> > 1. It does not download anything without knowledge or permission. Others
> > will open an upgrade available window on start and give you the choice.
> > Chrome, if you do not defeat this feature, upgrades will show up in
> > synaptic or aptitude. You have the choice to upgrade like any other
> > package. How they do it? I did not see a google entry in sources.list.
> > Tagancha.org?
>
> It creates a daily cron job to check for updates and appears
> temporarily to modify sources.list to grab the update. Some find this
> behavior offensive, but it's by no means the only package which
> creates a cron job which does things at the system level.
Wouldn't it be easier and safer just to tell folks to place a line should they
choose to do so in source.list to reference their repositiory? Or give me an
option to do it for me in post-install (which is what I thought they were
doing without the option)?
Would the /etc/apt/sources.d entry be sufficient in itself? Cron job?
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