Even worse, it checks for updates of the windows build. Nevertheless, there is a build option to enable/disable update checking: src/smplayer.pro contains "DEFINES += UPDATE_CHECKER"
That's weird, I could swear we used to carry a fix for this package to turn off updates.
(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #1) > That's weird, I could swear we used to carry a fix for this package to turn > off updates. I can confirm that smplayer shows the update message even with latest version available in portage.
Created attachment 355228 [details, diff] remove updater I first tried adding "DEFINES-=UPDATE_CHECKER" to eqmake4 cmdline, but that did not work.
Fixed in smplayer-0.8.5-r1. Thanks for your contribution!