Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I strongly object to the proxy environment variable overriding that in > the conf file, because the apt.conf setting is more specific and is > purely for apt, and has likely been set by the sysadmin specifically > to suite the properties of debian packages -- large, and likely to be > updated on a lot of machines. So if you are using apt-cacher, and all > of your machines use apt-cacher for the apt proxy, then you can set it > as the proxy for apt only, and everything else can keep using your > squid proxy.
Then the correct alternative would be to ignore http_proxy altogether. Not to ignore proxy setting in apt.conf because http_proxy is set.
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