[landdate]

Maybe I used imprecise wording. Not root, but must be part of sudoers. Or am I misunderstanding how the process works? Don'tWhenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.

[NekkoDroid]

Yea, but that is to install the package after it was built (or installing dependencies). The build itself is done unprivileged.