To set or not to set the proxy?

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I am facing a dilemma:

For unknown reasons, my Ubuntu 14.04 requires a proxy for updating the system software. Otherwise, it just hangs there. Some discussions about this are here.

On the other hand, in order to run my Google App Engine SDK, no proxy is supposed to be set. There are also some discussions here.

Pretty odd situation and I have no idea how to deal with this. Could somebody explains why Ubuntu has to have a proxy for system software update? Is there a solution for such a dilemma?

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yltang52

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To set or not to set the proxy?