Bug#756879: atanks: please avoid calling home

[Cyril Brulebois]

Jesse Smith <jessefrgsmith at yahoo.ca> (2014-08-02):
> I am not sure why you would want to disable update notification.

I'd call it basic privacy.

> Especially with a patch to the source code, that seems overkill. If the
> message bothers you you could just disable update notifications in the
> Options menu under the Network category.

Ah, switching from opt-out to opt-in would be an idea. I can't check
what happens in the options menu though because I'm getting a segfault.

> Alternatively the game could be compiled without the THREADS constant
> defined in the Makefile, that would disable checks for updates without
> requiring a patch to the source code. It probably won't have any serious
> affect on the rest of the game to disable threads either. Threading was
> mostly just there for generating backgrounds on older computers.

I noticed the two #ifdef but relying on such side effects is usually quite
suboptimal… I'm not the maintainer though.

Mraw,
KiBi.
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