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Re: Eclipse plugins to debian packages?



>Curiously, what does this accomplish?
>
>If you want to make Debian packages for these features, having a nice
>build environment to do so before you upload to the archive is one
>thing... but what's hte point of converting upstream stuff to .debs? It
>adds nothing.

The idea is to control Eclipse plugins same way as you keep your system up2dated - using the APT. Currently, updating and installing Eclipse plugins for every user on the box is not very convenient.

>What we really need is for the Eclipse plugin system to work nicely, and
>I think it's nearly there or there already. You should be able to
>install a plugin from eclipse and it should end up in either
>~/.eclipse/plugins or /usr/local/lib/eclipse/plugins or something.

>You should also be able to install Debian provided versions.



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