Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support. | Spyke

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Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

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Aw hell no.

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Eww. Embrace, extend, extinguish?

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CameronDev reply

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Chill out. They've release debs and rpms for years as well, is that EEE?

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NotSteve_ reply

I think maybe CameronDev assumed this meant running flatpak packages inside Chrome which was actually my first interpretation as well

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Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support. | Spyke