For Python, you can get most packages as non-root via `pip install --user $package` - but you are right, you might need root if these packages depend on system

For Python, you can get most packages as non-root via `pip install --user $package` - but you are right, you might need root if these packages depend on system libraries (that they often wrap). However, it maybe should not be a requirement. AFAIK nix allows you to install stuff as a normal user (and so does dnf on Fedora, but it depends on the package).