On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:08 +0000, Hubert FONGARNAND wrote: > >Or as an even better workaround, heck, no, solution, > update-manager/synaptic could just use libproxy and not have to worry > about parsing all those variables itself. > > > Don't do that please... dpkg can call other tools like (wget) :> example when > you install the flash player... > And all these tool doesn't use libproxy...
They should. Every tool doing the same processing (and many getting it wrong) of proxy environment variables is just silly, wrong, error-prone and a waste of time and effort that could be better spent making said tools better in other areas. Certainly, until they do use libproxy, allowances have to be made so that such tools get the env. variables they need, but if every tool waited until every other tool supported something before they do, nothing would get done. -- no_proxy environment dropped when calling synaptic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207768 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
