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The Polkit delegation is fine-grained. All it allows is managing packages.

Installing packages locally is a management nightmare from a systems administration point of view, and it does not fit the way package managers like APT and RPM work.

In most cases, a machine is used by a single user so it makes sense to allow global package installation, even if the user does not have root privileges.




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