[indiana-discuss] Package Manager + http proxy ?

[Calum Benson]

On 5 May 2008, at 02:16, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 17:45 -0700, Brett wrote:
>> Thanks guys, that worked fine.
>>
>> Note to dev's however...... I think this needs to either have its  
>> own proxy configuration dialog tab or work off the gnome prefs one.
>>
>> A large majority of folks these days work from behind a http proxy.  
>> There is no point in putting a tool on the gnome menu's that, to be  
>> effective, needs to be run from command line after creating  
>> environment variables.
>>
>> just my 2cp worth ;-)
>
> AFAIR, setting the proxy in System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy
> will add http_proxy to the environment on login.

Maybe true, but I'd agree that's not really good enough.  If you set a  
proxy, you want it to be usable immediately-- I know that's not always  
possible, but in this case I'd have though the IPS GUI should be able  
to detect changes in the GNOME proxy settings easily enough.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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