Is it safe over Tor to require Synaptic Package Manager to operate a Reload while in the root account? Why would not amnesia privileges be appropriate during Reload?

This is a Debian thing. Root privileges are required to update the list of available packages. My interpretation of it is that the authenticity of the list of available packages is actually better kept off the realm of non-root users.
Comment by Tails Sun 02 Sep 2012 11:49:48 AM CEST