Feature suggestion - install packages as noon root using apt-get

[Ralf Mardorf]

It's not that simple. You can not just provide a --non-root option for
apt-get and dpkg, that simply redirect installing to $HOME/bin,
$HOME/lib etc., since a lot of packages require the root privileges to
add system wide variables, change security settings etc., some content
of packages anyway needs to be recognised pathwise by ldconfig or is
related to the init process. What you recommend is to maintain a
repository for non-root user installs. Let alone that apt-get isn't an
Ubuntu tool, IOW you anyway need to send such a feature request to the
upstream tracker.

2 Cents,
Ralf