Support installing plugins in /usr/local/lib/eclipse and /usr/local/share/eclipse
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Eclipse debian package |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We need a location for plugin/add-on installs that are both:
1) Shared by all users on a machine
2) Not managed / owned by the distro tools
We can do that by using /usr/local/
for arch-independent ones.
In both these locations we should have the following structure:
* plugins
* features
* dropins
plugins/ and features/ should ideally be owned/managed via P2, if this is possible.
But most admins will likely choose the dropins hierarchy since this is much easier to manage at
least for "leaf" plugins (with no reverse dependencies).
e.g.,