Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.
> > Note that I'm not sure setting things in /etc/environment (or /etc/profile,
> > which is a worse idea) really works the way it should. does it override the
> > users' preferences saved in their dotfiles? That would be wrong.
>
> Oh yes -- thank goodness policy forbids such nastiness -- other linux
> distributions have a million settings in /etc/profile, and it is not a
> thrilling situation -- logins take quite a bit longer under those distros,
> and it just feels messy.
But this is obviously another thing. It's not a needed thing. It's a local
setting that a user might want to set for himself, or an administrator for
everybody, of course. Just like the LANG variable.
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