synaptic ankward proxy support

[Ali Sabil]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Hello,

I live in a campus with an authenticated proxy and an internal ubuntu repository mirror, basically I would like to use the internal ubuntu repository, and use the proxy for any third party repository, because the proxy forbids the access to the LAN servers through it.

using /etc/apt/apt.conf and adding something like this :

  Acquire {
      http {
          Proxy "http://user:pwd@host:port/";
      };
      ftp {
          Proxy "http://user:pwd@host:port/";
          Proxy::lan.host "DIRECT";
      };
  };

makes apt-get works perfectly, however I don't get the same result with synaptic.

Also I think synaptic should lose its proxy setting panel (because it makes it more complex to configure for beginners) since it picks up the config from the env variable which is set by GNOME (and gksu)

thank you