On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:57 +0400, Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus) wrote: > Tim Lauridsen пишет: > > Kulbir Saini wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> Whenever I try a new version of Fedora, the first problem I face is > >> setting the proxy. It seems for almost every application, I have to > >> specify proxy at a different place. We have this "System -> > >> Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Network Proxy" app to specify > >> proxy settings. But I wonder if there is some application which obeys > >> these settings. > >> > >> Examples: > >> > >> 1. Yum (3.2.19-3.fc10) won't fetch proxy settings from above > >> specified location. It has to be set via proxy option in yum.conf or > >> http_proxy/ftp_proxy env variable. > > The problem is that the above is Gnome thing, so it make sense for > > gnome apps to use it, but yum a low level app there should work on all > > systems, also sytems with no GUI. > > Tim > > > Yes, but it is no problem for yum optionally check this settings if it > is available in system, right? Rather than instrument all apps so they can follow all desktop systems' mechanism for setting a proxy, wouldn't it make more sense to have a common way that all the desktops set? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
