[tor-talk] How to make TBB useable as "system Tor", as Tor, Vidalia, pluggable transports system level replacement?

[Patrick Schleizer]

carlo von lynX:
> I like Patrick's initiative.

Thanks! :)

> Please, make it possible
> to have Tor solutions that are more timely than debian

> but less intrusive than TAILS (I hate when I can't have
> my own unix configuration with all of my preferred apps).

Tails has the same issue. They're also lagging behind the latest (and
working!) pluggable transports, maybe also because there is no
easy/maintainable way to reuse those pluggable transports from the TBB
package.

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 02:17:29AM -0500, Libertas wrote:
>> At that point, why not just use a separate daemon?
> 
> Why maintain the overhead of a Tor router list etc twice?

> Weren't the Isolate* directives in tor config conceived
> to separate browser activity from other Tor usage?

Yes.

> I can
> imagine we should be having an /etc/tor.d build process
> for the Tor configuration, allowing for apps to specify
> their various needs.

That is:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1922