On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 14:16 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
To be clear, this is only my recollection, I haven't gone back
and
checked yet. I may be misremembering the discussions...
There was a well-debated design decision to allow installation without
authentication, maybe three or four years ago. I think the goal was to
make installing apps with GNOME Software easier.
Michael