The "Gentoo Prefix Use Cases" paper (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/usecases.xml) has scenarios where Gentoo Prefix is used in enterprise environments. It is not unusual that machines in such environments have Internet access through some kind of HTTP proxy.
I think it would be a good idea for the step-by-step instructions (e g http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml) to include recommendations on how to specify an HTTP proxy for the bootstrap process. Perhaps it is not easy to cover all possible proxy configurations, but probably it would go a long way to just indicate how to do in a typical case. Some time ago I found that putting proxy details in etc/wgetrc appeared to solve the problem for me. Recently this doesn't work anymore (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320555). Proxy info is also needed in ~/.subversion/servers; at least that is what I have. It would be nicer if the subversion config files could be folded into the prefix tree, I haven't looked into this. Maybe there is more to it that I can't think of now. Anyway, if someone adds instructions to the step-by-step page I volunteer to try them out. --Rabbe Fogelholm
