No thank you google! Chrome automatically installs a mail server.

I just updated my Ubuntu desktop system and I didn't read the list of updates first. I swear this is the first time I didn't read the list and boy has it bitten me. I currently have the Google Chrome repo (http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main) on my system and it has really done it now.

Chrome has installed the following new packages on my system:

• alien (8.78)
  bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2ubuntu1)
  build-essential (11.4)
  cvs (1:1.12.13-12ubuntu1)
  debhelper (7.3.15ubuntu3)
  dpkg-dev (1.15.4ubuntu2)
  g++ (4:4.4.1-1ubuntu2)
  g++-4.4 (4.4.1-4ubuntu9)
  gettext (0.17-8ubuntu2)
  html2text (1.3.2a-14)
  intltool-debian (0.35.0+20060710.1)
  libmail-sendmail-perl (0.79.16-1)
  libqt4-assistant (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-dbus (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-designer (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-gui (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-opengl (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-script (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-sql (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-sql-sqlite (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-svg (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  libqt4-xml (4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1)
  librpm0 (4.7.0-9)
  librpmbuild0 (4.7.0-9)
  librpmio0 (4.7.0-9)
  libstdc++6-4.4-dev (4.4.1-4ubuntu9)
  libsys-hostname-long-perl (1.4-2)
  lsb (4.0-0ubuntu5)
  lsb-core (4.0-0ubuntu5)
  lsb-cxx (4.0-0ubuntu5)
  lsb-desktop (4.0-0ubuntu5)
  lsb-graphics (4.0-0ubuntu5)
  m4 (1.4.13-2)
  mailx (1:20081101-2ubuntu1)
  ncurses-term (5.7+20090803-2ubuntu2)
  pax (1:20090728-1)
  po-debconf (1.0.16)
  postfix (2.6.5-3)
  rpm (4.7.0-9)

WOW that is a lot of junk I didn't want. The most concerning to me is the unwelcomed mail server. Yes. anyone who updated their desktop system and is using the Chrome repo is now running a mail server. Complete with port 25 open.

Arggg. Now I have to rip this stuff out of my system, hope I don't break anything and say good-bye to Chrome.