Uniform Proxy Settings
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 3 14:20:25 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 07:17 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:34:58 -0400
> seth vidal <skvidal at 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 ?
The original complaint here is that the gnome proxy setting doesn't seem
to set this as well.
B/c yum does follow http_proxy env variable.
-sv
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