HACKER Q&A
📣 tuananh

Why does Edge Chromium use pkg installer instead of dmg?


What does it install beside the app in `/Applications`?

  👤 xzcvczx Accepted Answer ✓
extracting the pkg

MicrosoftEdgeBeta-84.0.522.11.pkg Office16_all_autoupdate.pkg

where MicrosoftEdgeBeta-84.0.522.11.pkg extracts to just .app, although there are a couple of embedded .apps, used according to the names for rendering and GPU

Office16_all_autoupdate.pkg seems to be the updater, however it seems that the updater is optional and can be chosen to not install in the installer but appears to default to install.

👤 xzcvczx
if its anything like google chrome it installs an updater application that is a royal pain to try and remove