Comment 19 for bug 830492

Hello James,

There is already squid-deb-proxy-client which was written by michael and allows to automatically detect apt proxies in the local network.

I don't currently plan to merge the download separation branch for Precise since it contains some deep changes to aptdaemon and still requires some new features of apt which haven't been written yet, e.g. accessing the apt_pkg.Acquire instance of an ListUpdate.

You are very excieted about your idea and put a lot of work into getting it done, but I am not sure if this is the right direction that aptdaemon should go. So please share your code as early as possible. It is better to talk, plan and decide about features before actually writting some code. I don't want you to waste your time.

Cheers,

Sebastian