-This package is intended to enable something like: fakeroot rpm
---rebuild i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package
-build. This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to a "libfakeroot.so.0.0",
-that provides wrappers around chown, chmod, mknod, stat, etc.
+fakeroot runs a command in an environment were it appears to have root
+privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to
+create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them with root
+permissions/ownership. Without fakeroot one would have to have root
+privileges to create the constituent files of the archives with the
+correct permissions and ownership, and then pack them up, or one would
+have to construct the archives directly, without using the archiver.