On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 01:26:19PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:24 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Packagemanager will need to work correctly in the face of all of these >> configuration choices. I don't think the GNOME configuration should >> overrride the environment or the pkg(5) proxy choices. If neither are >> configured, I don't have a problem with consulting the GNOME config, >> but >> that should be dynamic, i.e. it changes with changes to the settings. > > > From what I recall, they are unfortunately constrained by the fact that > since the packagemanager is running as "root", due to GNOME behaviour, > they don't have on-demand access to the user's proxy settings. Hence why > they have to get them before executing the pakagemanager through a > script.
Would you clarify what you mean here? I understand that the user's environment may not available if we're logged in as root, but I assumed that the client was able to subscribe to updates from gconf? Is this not the case? -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
