</refnamediv>
<RefSect1><Title>Description</>
- <para>
+ <para>
<filename/apt.conf/ is the main configuration file for the APT suite of
tools, all tools make use of the configuration file and a common command line
parser to provide a uniform environment. When an APT tool starts up it will
<RefSect1><Title>The APT Group</>
<para>
- This group of options controls general APT behavoir as well as holding the
+ This group of options controls general APT behavior as well as holding the
options for all of the tools.
<VariableList>
<VarListEntry><Term>Clean-Installed</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any pacakge
+ Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any pacakges
which can no longer be downloaded from the cache. If turned off then
packages that are locally installed are also excluded from cleaning - but
note that APT provides no direct means to reinstall them.
information. This sets the size of that cache.
</VarListEntry>
+ <VarListEntry><Term>Build-Essential</Term>
+ <ListItem><Para>
+ Defines which package(s) are considered essential build dependencies.
+ </VarListEntry>
+
<VarListEntry><Term>Get</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
The Get subsection controls the &apt-get; tool, please see its
will override all settings.
<para>
Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 complient
- proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not used its cached
+ proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not use its cached
response under any circumstances, <literal/Max-Age/ is sent only for
index files and tells the cache to refresh its object if it is older than
the given number of seconds. Debian updates its index files daily so the