apt-get. It simply tells you what it's going to remove/install. Calling an API to retrieve data is not really the type of program that requires a dry-run flag.

apt-get. It simply tells you what it's going to remove/install. Calling an API to retrieve data is not really the type of program that requires a dry-run flag. It's mainly useful for commands that change the state of something in ways that could potentially be destructive, unwanted and/or hard to revert.