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+Common-Description:
+ fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and SysV IPC
+ (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(), stat(), and other
+ file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged users can (for instance)
+ populate .opk archives with root-owned files; various build tools use fakeroot
+ for this by default.