Once upon a time, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com said:
I think that's too subjective though.
What is subjective about "allowing unprivileged to do things that previously only root could do"?
I'd be more in favor of a simple, broad view of what the user should be able to do without root. It's possible "install packages" would be on that list, it's possible not. That way packages could ask themselves "does this break the policy?" If it doesn't, great. If it does, time for a bug report.
There have been bug reports, but they get closed by the maintainers as NOTABUG, so that procedure is obviously not working.