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Draft: community/tor: disable dirauth build

jvoisin requested to merge jvoisin/aports:disable_dirauth_tor into master

There is no need to build support for running a directory authority in Alpine's tor package, since:

  • There are currently 9 hardcoded dirauth in the tor network, and the odds of having a new one are close to inexistant.
  • Not a single dirauth is running on Alpine Linux
  • Since there are only 9 instances of dirauth in prod, the code to run one isn't as battle-tested as the regular relay one (the network has currently a bit less than 8000 relays)
  • This would allow to reduce the size of the binary, and we all love that.

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