man page: FetchUselessDescriptors stops tor going idle

Also explain how FetchUselessDescriptors and UseMicrodescriptors are
different.

Closes 25998.
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If set to 1, Tor will fetch every consensus flavor, descriptor, and
certificate that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
descriptors: flavors that it is not using to build circuits, and authority
certificates it does not trust. This option is useful if you're using a
certificates it does not trust. Tor stops fetching descriptors if it
hasn't built any circuits lately: this option makes Tor keep fetching
descriptors, even when idle. This option is useful if you're using a
tor client with an external parser that uses a full consensus.
This option fetches all documents, **DirCache** fetches and serves
all documents. (Default: 0)
all documents, **UseMicrodescriptors 0** fetches full descriptors and uses
them to build circuits. (Default: 0)
[[HTTPProxy]] **HTTPProxy** __host__[:__port__]::
Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80