A sole, standard proxy library for Fedora

[Philip Prindeville]

Hey Ryan!  Haven't heard from you in a while... :-)

Yeah, that would probably be a good place.  Or eventually the
right place.  The issue was that the Fedora distro has patches
built into the apps, of course, which means that Fedora users
could use and test the library ahead of the curve...  and maybe
be the testing audience getting the operational experience to
make this change happen upstream (i.e. the proof that it works).

-Philip

Ryan Hodges wrote:

>Has this ever been discussed as part of the Linux Standards Base 
>specification.  It seems like this would be a good place for a proposal 
>to take shape.
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>Thanks,
>Ryan
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>Leszek Matok wrote:
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>>Dnia 27-05-2006, sob o godzinie 15:33 +0200, Aurelien Bompard
>>napisał(a):
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>>>How about having a file in /etc/profile.d, say proxy.sh and proxy.csh (yeah,
>>>that's two, well, you get the point) containing this:
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>>My tcsh reads its profile only when it starts up. It means I have to
>>close every session I have in order to use the change. I thought this
>>thread was about preventing this (and not introducing :)) using a
>>library that re-checks the configuration every time any application
>>tries to download something, without the need to restart it. Your
>>proposal not only demands that I have to cancel and restart e.g. wget
>>-c, it also requires me to log out and log in again. That's unacceptable
>>for some people.
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>>I know I can just source the files any time I want, but we're talking
>>about doing things automatically :)
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>>Lam
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