[Patrick Matthäi] > is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? > I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the > mirrors instead of help anything.
I took is request to ask for SOCKS support, not encrypted connections. I know that I've used the SOCKS feature of OpenSSH some times to get out of a network with limited accessibility, and being able to use apt-get (or aptitude) with such network tunnel would be useful in such setting. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
