Bug#175937: Acknowledgement (apt: 'does not manipulate the state of the system' wording)

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

P.S. as a double caution to messing up my system
while experimenting, I used both -s and avoided being root.


$ apt-get -o Dir::Etc::Preferences=preferences \
-s install libc6
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

well, If I weren't going to change the system then why can't i not be root?
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