Fedora 12 allows installing without root privilege

[bigtomrodney]

It seems that all of the contraversy has led to action:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00012.html

There is an update to F12 that will reverse this behaviour. This now has to be manually enabled, which I'm a lot more comfortable with.

[reed9]

The other thing that is clear from the discussion is that we didn't do
nearly enough communication about the change. I think was partly because
the changes *weren't* finished. A rewrite of PolicyKit wasn't a feature
in itself; the feature would have been the accounts dialog, which we
didn't do for Fedora 12. But clearly the changes we did do had some
major impacts that needed to be advertised.

And while there are great low-level docs with all the details about
PolicyKit configuration (see polkit( for a starting point to the
docs), we didn't have the simple instructions for changing basic system
policy.

*From https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg01445.html

Exactly what I thought the problem was.

[MikeTbob]

I am very glad to see this changed...it could have led to many disasters of different types.

[elija]

Now that's what you call a fast response