Re: Automatic installs

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2013-11-17, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
>> "-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act
>> No action. Perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not
>> actually change the system." - http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get=20
>
> Isn't needing something like -s too dangerous?  What if you forgot to
> include it on the command line?  Wouldn't that be just as scary? :-)

But you do not need to be root to simulate aptly, so the danger to which
you allude needn't exist.