Description of Problem:

The system comes configured so it's difficult to use rpm
without being root, and the use of root should be discouraged.

Additional Information:
	
Please add the following text to the rpm man page.

----------------------------<snip>---------------------------------
BUILDING AND INSTALLING WHEN NOT THE ROOT USER

By default, building takes place in /usr/src/redhat/, newly (re)built
rpms are written to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch>/ (or
/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/), and root permissions are required to write to
these directories.  The following script places a directory named
redhat into the user's home directory and rpm is configured to build
in this new directory:

  (
    if [ -e $HOME/.rpmmacros ] ; then
      echo $HOME/.rpmmacros: already exists 1>&2
      exit 1
    fi
    if [ -e $HOME/redhat ] ; then
      echo $HOME/redhat: already exists 1>&2
      exit 1
    fi
    echo "%_topdir $HOME/redhat" > $HOME/.rpmmacros
    mkdir $HOME/redhat/{,BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,RPMS,SRPMS}
  )

Note that root permissions will be required to install a (rebuilt)
rpm unless other options, like --relocate and --dbpath, are used.
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I haven't tried using rpm to manage packages installed into my
home directory, but the above works just fine for building when
not root.  It's a start.