Comment # 5 on bug 902359 from Marcos Mello

(In reply to Ville Koskinen from comment #3)
> Adding proxy profile support to YAST would save me some effort, so I'm all
> for it.
> 
> Proxy autoconfiguration in web browsers is fine and solves a part of the
> problem, but it doesn't help with command-line tools (like zypper and wget)
> or other X applications. The workaround you suggest for shell sessions is
> actually a good idea and I'll make use of it.

At least on 42.1, wget uses libproxy and works fine even with WPAD on GNOME
(proxy mode set to "Automatic").

libproxy support in zypper would be *very* welcome. It is the only program in
my setup that makes me keep using the proxy variables.