# Removing a registry

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-a-registry/23727>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-a-registry/23727 "2019-05-01T10:01:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Gibb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Andrew\_Gibb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Andrew_Gibb)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-a-registry/23727/7 "2019-05-01T12:29:53Z")

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> [@GunnarFarneback](#):
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> Out of curiosity, what is the roadblock for that?

See the discussion here:

> [@Accesing a Registry on Private Github](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accesing-a-registry-on-private-github/19997/12):
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> So, I went digging around in the source for Pkg, and followed things all the way down into the libgit2 C library. At this stage, I couldn’t figure out which calls did what, and ran out of time to investigate further. A bit more detail about the on-network case which is the problem: We use a socks proxy for ssh traffic leaving our network. This is wrapped in a call to netcat, specified in one’s ssh config file. It seems that libgit2, and be extension Pkg, does not look at ssh config by default. …

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