Using a package manager w/o root access

I do a lot of scientific programming at work on different servers with out of date CentOS repositories and without root access. To get the libraries I need and to keep them up to date, what I'm doing now is compiling every program I need from source on every computer I use, and never updating the software.
Is it possible to a package manager to operate in $HOME without root priviledges? For intsance, could I install yum (CentOS package manager) into $HOME or, even better, install pacman into $HOME and pull and update software from Arch repos into my $HOME directory? Or has anyone run into this problem and figured out a better way to install and update software?

pacman has a --root <path> option. Try that (I haven't).
Also, I don't know how you or the admins would feel about this but if you've got physical acces to the machines, anything is possible.
Specifically, you could use a Linux LiveCD to mount the root partitions of said servers and reset the root passwords (in /etc/shadow).
A less drastic approach would be to add your user(s) to /etc/sudoers with an entry like this
Username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman

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