On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 12:18:57PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
It's nice not to be telling everyone who can sniff a plaintext
connection which packages you are installing,
Without doubt, this is an advantage of a TLS connection. If you
do care about that, here would be one reason.
In case you wish to obscure what software you *install*, but need not
conceal the software you *download*:
Step one: Make a list of the packages you want, and then augment it
with as many plausible alternatives and red herrings as you like.
Step two:
$ apt-get -d install <many packages>
This downloads the packages only, so you can download packages you
will *not* install, along with ones you will. Then install the proper
subset you want installed, without the '-d' option.