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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by nemetroid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:53AM (#25057311)
The wording on this page suggests that it is a policy:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Patching

As you say, the page notes that "[the] policy is intended to suggest, not to enforce", but having a policy is orthogonal to enforcing it.

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by Foxboron on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:18AM (#25057410)
And as a packager for Arch the past 3 years: I had no clue this page existed. Evidently we are bad at these policy things. But I'd rather call them social norms then packaging policies.
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