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  1. Bug #556293
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 556293

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Taylor Braun-Jones (nocnokneo) wrote :

There is a simpler workaround to preserve the http_proxy environment variable:

sudo -E apt-get install ...

However this preserves all other (potentially dangerous) environment variables. The point is that that environment variables which are safe and commonly needed in a sudo environment should be whitelisted by default.