On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 13:36:00 +0000, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> In this email, I have attached a diff that adds support for updating the
> system, applying patches, installing firmware, and managing ports through a
> mirror on the Tor network. This implementation is designed to be as
> non-invasive to the base system as possible, and requires the prior
> installation of two ports (net/tor and net/torsocks) for this feature to
> work. In addition, the documentation has been updated to reflect these
> changes.

Couldn't you instead just add a way to override the ftp command from 
an environment variable in those tools and set it to "torsocks ftp 
-N" in your case, without any of these tools needing to directly 
know anything about Tor or looking for .onion URLs?