Lazily installing Chromium is an anti-pattern

[aakropotkin]

This "feature" makes naive assumptions about portability, permissions, and hides silently automated installation of software from users.

This is a feature borrowed from malware. While I understand it's not used maliciously here, it's an absolute mess for folks managing tool-chains and packages in an enterprise or security conscious environment.

You don't think you should get authorization or feedback about preferences from users before you install software on their system? Why would that be okay?

[altruios]

I would not call this anti-pattern, anti-pattern is inefficient or shooting yourself in the foot in the future...

This is dark-pattern territory.

[aakropotkin]

I would not call this anti-pattern, anti-pattern is inefficient or shooting yourself in the foot in the future...

This is dark-pattern territory.

This might be a more appropriate term.

Simply : "it's bad, presumptuous, and insecure".

This is like if you let someone crash on your couch for a week and you come back from work to find that they invited a few more friends to sleep on the floor. 🙃

[aehlke]

this project is abandoned.