On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 9:17 PM Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/20/22 at 07:19pm, Brian Geffon wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:09 PM Andrew Gregory > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 11/20/22 at 06:43pm, Brian Geffon wrote: > > > > Currently the only way to use a proxy is via XferCommand; however, > > > > > > Not true; from man CURLOPT_PROXY: > > > > I apologize, I stand corrected. Happy to reword the commit message to > > state that this > > allows the proxy to be configured at a system level. Otherwise I'm > > also happy to just > > withdraw the patch if that doesn't seem useful. > > Given that a proxy is one of the few ways to influence the download process > that doesn't involve us adding dozens of knobs to the downloader, I'm not > necessarily opposed to adding it as an explicitly supported option (but I > haven't actually reviewed this patch yet). I am curious how much utility this > actually has though. I don't think I've ever actually heard from a user > needing to set a proxy specifically for pacman before so, to the best of my > knowledge, this is a pretty niche use case.
Yeah, let's just go ahead and drop this. Thanks for taking the time to look! Brian
