Nicolás Lichtmaier writes: > > I think your ideas may be suitable for wishlist bugs against packages > > that don't do what you want, but it shouldn't go into policy. > > No. The maintainers could close the wishlist without doing anything.
I think that they would only do so if they have a good reason not to honour your behaviour. > The policy is just a tool to set a standard nehavious of programs, and I > think that a standard behaviour is useful here: When I set a system that > many users will use, I will configure it so the users son't need to be > bothered by anything. That includes setting the proper http_* variables in > /etc/profile, and it works great, since wget, lynx, netscape and others > respect those vars. What I am saying is that we should recognize this common > practice in our policy... I don't think so - indeed policy says that packages shouldn't depend on environment variables for their correct behaviour(3.9). I don't disagree that http_proxy as an environment variable is common practice, but I do disagree strongly that this should be made policy - you'd have to do away with policy section 3.9 for starters... Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
