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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by rumanator on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:01PM (#23435387)
> Simple: they decided that maintaining the chromium .deb takes too much effort, and that snap is making that easier. So they moves it to Snap.

Their whole distribution is copied from Debian. Is it too much effort to just copy and distribute the upstream package, like they have been doing from the very start?

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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by hvis on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:14PM (#23435497)
See the link in the sibling comment. They don't copy.
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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by scoot_718 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @01:19AM (#23437028)
No, they've got to meddle and mess with every damn thing to create unnecessary headaches for users.
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Re:Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap by hvis on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:02PM (#23443121)
FFS, they build newer packages than Debian.

If you don't like that, use Debian directly. It's a good distro that has stood the test of time.

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