Comment 24 for bug 56880

Jan Claeys: I am a sysadmin at a school, and I have set the enviroment variables. The nature of this bug is that the package management system doesn't correctly use the environment's proxy setting.

Most primary schools don't have sysadmins and some secondaries don't.

Most schools considering migrating won't go much further than an intial trial if their first experiments show them that they can't use their familiar fonts, or youtube, etc. The existence of googlable kludges is not a good solution to bug 1.