From 4b73368d8a648247d2695849beba53a2be74151a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cédric Barboiron Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 11:24:46 +0200 Subject: Improve description how to turn off the caches Closes: #753531 --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index fcbf20dac..ffecc6ceb 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -608,10 +608,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; information, such as the two package caches srcpkgcache and pkgcache as well as the location to place downloaded archives, Dir::Cache::archives. Generation of caches can be turned off - by setting their names to the empty string. This will slow down startup but - save disk space. It is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather - than the srcpkgcache. Like Dir::State the default - directory is contained in Dir::Cache + by setting pkgcache or srcpkgcache to + "". This will slow down startup but save disk space. It + is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather than the srcpkgcache. + Like Dir::State the default directory is contained in + Dir::Cache Dir::Etc contains the location of configuration files, sourcelist gives the location of the sourcelist and -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2