Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-03-14 Thread sajolida
boyska: @boyska: Any concern about that since curl is already installed? no specific concern, but of course, this moves the needle towards making it work out of the box. All right, see you on #19448, then! https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19488 -- sajolida Tails —

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-03-14 Thread boyska
On 08/03/2023 18:12, sajolida wrote: I wanted to try adding curl by default to see the impact on the image size but ... it seems to be installed already: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/commit/8aa013f3b549d90609fb2a4dd7e2bd14e3439151 ah! thanks for making me notice. I didn't

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-03-08 Thread sajolida
David A. Wheeler: I've created a proposal to briefly describe how to use additional software within Tails. It includes some information on how to use curl: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/1044 Thanks! I'll have a look. I had in mind investigative journalists &

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-03-01 Thread David A. Wheeler
> oh yeah, we all like curl. I wonder what kind of user needs curl, though. > ... > On Feb 28, 2023, at 2:20 PM, sajolida wrote: > I wanted to complete a bit the picture on "who the heck would use curl"? > Daniel Moßbrucker used wget for his investigative journalism: >

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-28 Thread sajolida
David A. Wheeler: oh yeah, we all like curl. I wonder what kind of user needs curl, though. You mentioned that some packages in Debian will "just work" if curl is working. Can you name any of them? I think that would be very valuable info! Sorry, what I meant was, "I expect that some packages

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-08 Thread David A. Wheeler
> On Feb 7, 2023, at 4:04 AM, boyska wrote: > > On 2/6/23 19:00, David A. Wheeler wrote: >>> oh yeah, we all like curl. I wonder what kind of user needs curl, though. >>> You mentioned that some packages in Debian will "just work" if curl is >>> working. Can you name any of them? I think

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-07 Thread boyska
On 2/6/23 19:00, David A. Wheeler wrote: oh yeah, we all like curl. I wonder what kind of user needs curl, though. You mentioned that some packages in Debian will "just work" if curl is working. Can you name any of them? I think that would be very valuable info! Sorry, what I meant was, "I

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-06 Thread David A. Wheeler
> On Feb 6, 2023, at 2:44 AM, segfault wrote: > I agree that it might be useful to document in the Additional Software docs > that some applications need to be run via torsocks. I'll let our UX and > documentation person decide on that. > >> However, in the case of *curl*, using torsocks

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-06 Thread boyska
On 04/02/2023 20:18, David A. Wheeler wrote: Currently Tails includes and supports wget. I propose *also* adding support for curl. Curl is widely-used and is the "go-to" tool for many people at the command line. Thus, including it would make Tails more convenient for some. In addition,

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-05 Thread segfault
David A. Wheeler: You might want to try `torsocks --isolate curl` (I didn't test it but that's often enough to make any program use Tor). Currently torsocks is never mentioned in the Tails user documentation, so a typical Tails user has a good chance of not knowing about it. (yes, torsocks

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-05 Thread David A. Wheeler
> On Feb 5, 2023, at 4:05 PM, segfault wrote: > > Hi, > > David A. Wheeler: >>> On Feb 4, 2023, at 2:18 PM, David A. Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> Currently Tails includes and supports wget. I propose *also* adding support >>> for curl. >> Replying to myself, I think there's a slightly better

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-05 Thread segfault
Hi, David A. Wheeler: On Feb 4, 2023, at 2:18 PM, David A. Wheeler wrote: Currently Tails includes and supports wget. I propose *also* adding support for curl. Replying to myself, I think there's a slightly better way to automatically support curl. I previously proposed setting the

Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: Add support for curl (does ALL_PROXY fix it?)

2023-02-05 Thread David A. Wheeler
> On Feb 4, 2023, at 2:18 PM, David A. Wheeler wrote: > > Currently Tails includes and supports wget. I propose *also* adding support > for curl. Replying to myself, I think there's a slightly better way to automatically support curl. I previously proposed setting the "ALL_PROXY"