Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Stefan Kangas]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I would like to arrange for package.el
> to always connect to ELPA across the Tor network.
> But it is 4600 lines of code and I would rather not have to read it all.
>
> 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?

I found these macros by searching for the string "(url":

    package--with-response-buffer-1
    package--with-work-buffer

I don't know if you want this to affect package-vc, but I guess a new
option would be even more useful if it could cover that too.