[alkonaut]

A document editor will want to write to the users documents directory.

Is the problem here that the user home dir both contains typical locations for user data and writing files with certain names to it will automatically execute ,such as ~/.bashrc?

Wouldn't it be better if the app only had permission to write to an actual user documents/data directory, rather than the home root? Which begs the next question: is there a standardized user document/data directory for desktop linux that isn't just "~"?

[zeroname]

> Wouldn't it be better if the app only had permission to write to an actual user documents/data directory...

Well, would it? If the app went rogue, it could still encrypt all your documents.

Either way, dealing with that is not the job of package management or software installers. They can not solve the fundamental design issues of software that has been written without a finer permissions model in mind.