http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/2222According to < http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00049.ht..., " Novell will not ship any torrent client with DHT enabled due to legal risks."
If this is correct, Then 1.70 has made it harder, rather than easier, for OpenSUSE to use Transmission. We should provide an autoconf option to easily disable DHT support at compile time.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-gnome/2009-03/msg00049.html
It's worth pointing out that Novell will not ship any torrent client
with DHT enabled [1] due to legal risks.
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[1] I'm not actually 100% sure if dht is disabled in all torrent
packages in opensuse even though it should be. ktorrent and Monsoon
disable for sure. I'm not sure if deluge does or not. If there is a
torrent package shipping from opensuse repositories which does *not*
have DHT disabled, I'm sure opensuse legal would love to hear about it
;) I can forward the relevant emails from my discussion with them to
anyone interested, or you can email them yourselves.