Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection

[Derek Broughton]

Chris, please trim other people's .sigs - otherwise those of us who respond 
to you will frequently actually lose your comments.  Smart mail programs 
trim at the first .sig separator...

Chris Jones wrote:

> RE: Synaptic - Proxy - Network Connection
> From:
> Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>
>   Date:
>>>>From: Kyle Amadio <kyle.amadio at itvss.com.au>
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place for this - Could be have Synaptics
> proxy/network connection changed to also have the option of using the
> system
> wide setting, rather than having to re-set it here as well as via the
> Network Proxy Preference form.
> 
> You need to be more specific. What exactly are you trying to do?

He really doesn't.  Synaptic (apt actually) has its own proxy settings 
(which is reasonable, because you might use an apt proxy like apt-cacher-
ng), but you might want it to use the standard Network proxy.  It would be 
convenient to have it have an option to use the default proxy.
-- 
derek