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-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.yo8
-rw-r--r--doc/examples/apt.conf3
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
index 9be4b114a..923e2724e 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ so may be necessary on some extremely slow single user systems but
is very dangerous and may cause package install scripts to fail or worse.
Use at your own risk.
+dit(bf(Force-LoopBreak))
+Never Enable this option unless you -really- know what you are doing. It
+permits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to break a
+Conflicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop between two essential
+packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option will
+work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, bash or anything that
+those packages depend on.
+
dit(bf(Get))
The Get subsection controls the bf(apt-get(8)) tool, please see its
documentation for more information about the options here.
diff --git a/doc/examples/apt.conf b/doc/examples/apt.conf
index a84fc1079..955088768 100644
--- a/doc/examples/apt.conf
+++ b/doc/examples/apt.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// $Id: apt.conf,v 1.35 1999/08/05 05:56:25 jgg Exp $
+// $Id: apt.conf,v 1.36 1999/08/12 05:59:47 jgg Exp $
/* This file is an index of all APT configuration directives. It should
NOT actually be used as a real config file, though it is a completely
valid file.
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ APT
// Some general options
Ignore-Hold "false";
Immediate-Configure "true"; // DO NOT turn this off, see the man page
+ Force-LoopBreak "false"; // DO NOT turn this on, see the man page
};
// Options for the downloading routines