On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Robert Holtzman<hol...@cox.net> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, David Baron wrote: > >> The Google Chromium Browser is working on my Debian box. Very quick, works >> certainly better the kde4 konqueror. Flash not yet implemented. >> >> There is a .deb package. Has a nice convenience (should be an option >> postinstall, however): the installation will somehow set it that apt-get >> update will list any upgrades so one need not keep visiting their very >> volatile snapshot to get upgraded .debs. > > Not such a nice convenience. I don't like s/w that downloads *anything* > without my knowledge or permission.
At t the dev.chromium.org site, from which I downloaded the .deb, there are explicit instructions on how to avoid the automatic update. So, at least if that's where you get it, it doesn't do anything without permission. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
