Uniform Proxy Settings

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Fri Oct 3 21:02:24 UTC 2008


2008/10/3 James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>:
>
>  So I'm going to assume that we're, again, ignoring a bunch of real
> Fedora users who use gnome-terminal on the desktop ... for all those 60+
> year olds who don't, and are about to be a majority of our users RSN.
>
>  But I have to ask, is gnome-PackageKit part of the desktop?
>  Assuming so, are you suggesting that gnome-PackageKit override all yum
> downloads that happen from as soon as a user logs into the desktop?
>  Or maybe that some yum related downloads will happen with the "desktop"
> proxy settings, and some with the "system" proxy settings?

I think it would make sense for things like "yum install foo" *when
invoked as nonroot* to call pkcon to accomplish the task.




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