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Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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An exciting development for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech. This would also help improve Google Chrome/Chromium support outside the likes of RPM and Debian based distributions with a cleaner packaging experience.

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

The main Chrome flatpak currently just installs the official RPM file for Chrome. You're right that the Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium ones do seem to build from source a bit more. I imagine it will just mean a better build process with less patching.

But you can see exactly what it means right in the ticket:

Create chrome/installer/linux/flatpak/ with packaging scripts and templates for metadata, AppStream metainfo, and launcher entrypoint.

Add enable_flatpak GN build argument (default false).

Add package_format to InstallerConfig and omit host desktop integration artifacts (system desktop files, /usr/bin symlinks, AppStream appdata, GNOME default apps, manpages, and AppArmor profiles) when packaging for Flatpak.

Update common/installer.py with Flatpak configuration and App ID mapping for Chromium (org.chromium.Chromium*) and Google Chrome (com.google.Chrome*).

Generalize common/desktop.template to support both Flatpak and system-wide desktop execution commands.

Disable setuid sandbox and zlib compression for non-official builds.

Update BUILD.gn with flatpak packaging targets and aliases.