Comment 2 for bug 5438

It is certainly true that if you install Eclipse from the tarball (I have an installation in /opt/eclipse) then all plugins go into the Eclipse installation direct. As do all keys and passwords. It seems then that the whole of Eclipse has an installation per user philosophy -- very M$ Windwoes.

Perhaps then there is nothing to be done about separating the system wide installation and the per user plugins and such making creating packages a somewhat fruitless activity?

The actual checkout workspace is fine though so perhaps hitting Eclipse with some serious error reports might get the philosophy changed?