Uniform Proxy Settings

[Kulbir Saini]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:57 +0400, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)
> wrote:
>> Tim Lauridsen пишет:
>>> Kulbir Saini wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> Whenever I try a new version of Fedora, the first problem I face is
>>>> setting the proxy. It seems for almost every application, I have to
>>>> specify proxy at a different place. We have this "System ->
>>>> Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Network Proxy" app to specify
>>>> proxy settings. But I wonder if there is some application which obeys
>>>> these settings.
>>>>
>>>> Examples:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Yum (3.2.19-3.fc10) won't fetch proxy settings from above
>>>> specified location. It has to be set via proxy option in yum.conf or
>>>> http_proxy/ftp_proxy env variable.
>>> The problem is that the above is Gnome thing, so it make sense for
>>> gnome apps to use it, but yum a low level app there should work on all
>>> systems, also sytems with no GUI.
>>> Tim
>>>
>> 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?

   Can we make this a part of the packaging policy that if your package 
sets/gets or do anything with the proxy settings, then it should always 
set/unset/access the env variables like http_proxy, ftp_proxy, 
gopher_proxy so that we can achieve some uniform system?

> -sv
> 
> 

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