Sudo even more secure

[Eric Feliksik]

Jan Claeys wrote:
> I don't want everybody to be able to install (system-wide) packages, but
> I want apt to (be able to) run as non-root...
> 
> Why doesn't/can't apt & co. run as (e.g.) a user "apt" to install
> packages that aren't core system packages?

The point is, as Dennis says, 'core system' is not really defined. Then 
still, you probably wonder why games can't be installed as user. Well, 
they can, if you download & compile them, but then you should manually 
tell the configure-script where to install and where to find it's 
dependencies (libraries).
You *could* implement this for apt, so you can tell apt to install 
program A in you home-dir, but then it should check if A's dependencies 
A_dep1 and A_dep2 are there in the root-dirs (/usr/lib etc), and if not, 
it should install them in you homedir too. Even more, that means A 
should be linked to A_dep1 and A_dep2 differently, which makes things 
more complex. This also fills your homedir quite quickly.
Nobody is willing to maintain such a situation, because you either make 
sure you're root, and install things with the beautiful existing apt, or 
you just download the source and run `./configure --lots-of-options && 
make && make install'.