Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Richard Stallman]

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Thanks for replying to my question a month ago.
I got so backlogged I just saw the reply.

  > > Can someone tell me where to find the code that actually
  > > communicates with the ELPA repos?  Where is the best place
  > > to make that change?

  > 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.

I agree, and I plan to use torsocks.  But in order to do thst, I need
to know where to do that.  That's really what my question was about.

Can you suggest where I should do that?

Does the url package have a variable to specify the command to use?
I could specify torsocks there.

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