On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:19:40 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I'm posting from gmane, I hope this is OK.
Looks good from here. (Wow, we're on gmane now!?) > The Calibre Ebook manager (calibre package) has code to contact the > calibre servers (https://code.calibre-ebook.com/latest) to check for > version updates. > > I think that this is > > 1. redundant since calibre is installed from Parabola > 2. a privacy issue since the app pokes an external server in a somewhat > opaque way I agree. > I have a couple of patches that remove the option from the Calibre UI > and the Python code that contacts the servers (in src/calibre/gui2/) > that I am using to build a modified calibre package off the Parabola > one. > > Are you interested in reviewing and possibly integrating them? I'm definitely interested in reviewing them. Though, I'd be a little surprised if there isn't already a ./configure flag to turn the behavior off. -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
