eclipse plugins per user

[Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro>]

Hi,

for vim, there's vim-addon-manager to enable or disable vim plugins for each 
individual user. This makes a lot of sense, since vim plugins are of varying 
quality and you may not force all users to use a plugin.

Plugins are still installed as regular debian packages, but only enabled via 
symlinks in $HOME/.vim or on selection system wide via symlinks to 
/usr/share/vim/...(?).

I'm not experienced enought with eclipse to know, whether such a setup would 
make sens for eclipse too. However what surely makes sense, would be the 
ability to install plugins not only as debian packages, but also via the 
eclipse update mechanism.

I've seen, that there formerly was a possibility to declare external plugin 
locations for eclipse with a "links" subfolder. But this is deprecated now and 
can only be reenabled with a config setting[1]. Does anybody know an 
equivalent way to use additional plugin locations?

[1] org.eclipse.update.reconcile=true

Just my 2c,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro