[packagekit] Proxy

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Tue Mar 25 02:16:52 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 08:28 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Doing it per-user, also means we don't have to add extra configuration
> as we can use the gnome-desktop settings if we are in GNOME and the KDE
> ones if we are in KDE.

That would be nice. However it would be a big security hole to do so.
Keep in mind that the user session is always to be considered hostile.

(What you could do instead is making the packagekit system daemon read
the proxy settings from the mandatory and default area of gconf.)

       David





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