Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Isearching for 'url-' reveals that the following functions use the URL
  > package to access the HTTP server: 'package--with-work-buffer',
  > 'package--archive-file-exists-p' and'package--with-response-buffer-1'.

  > But I think a better/safer solution will be to use torsocks.

Better/safer solution than which other solution?

Using torsocks was what I had in mind -- the question is
where it would be easy to do that.  Would it be easy to do
in those three functions?  If not, then where?


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