Re: Uniform Proxy Settings

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:34:58 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org> wrote:
> > >
> > Yes, but it is no problem for yum optionally check this settings if
> > it is available in system, right?
> 
> Rather than instrument all apps so they can follow all desktop
> systems' mechanism for setting a proxy, wouldn't it make more sense
> to have a common way that all the desktops set?
>

.... like http_proxy environment variable that everyone and their dog
(except firefox) uses ?


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