Package: apt Version: 0.3.12 Severity: normal It seems that the only way to specify proxies is through environment variables. This violates our policy (or at least its rationale) where environment variables should be the only way of specifying configuration information for the simple fact there is no easy way of setting it for all users.
So please come up with an alternative way of setting proxies, perhaps through a new configuration file or an existing one. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux hume 2.2.12 #3 Wed Sep 15 09:34:14 EST 1999 sparc unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.1-0pre1 The GNU stdc++ library
