GSoC Idea: Packaging Tor+Vidalia

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Adna rim wrote:
> 
>> My solution at the moment is stopping the tor daemon and removing it
>> from the runlevels through vidalia's postinst script.
> 
> Mucking with another package's config is a serious policy violation.
> Such a package would never be acceptable for Debian.
> 
> 

That was my thought as well. However, I'm curious what your thoughts are
on the Debian Way (TM) to solve this problem? Perhaps to patch the tor
init.d script in the Tor package to check for a flag that can be set by
the Vadalia package?

Regards,
Jacob