[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.2

[Caesar]

do you expect apt to be more reliable in installing eclipse and its
numerous plugins than eclipse itself?

When I need my workspace on the clean machine I simply unpack my eclipse
installation with all its plugins. It is easier than installing
everything with apt and it is easier than fresh eclipse install and then
plugins install with internal installer.

And I don't need to configure tons of tiny things for every plugin.

Apt and eclipse can live together only when all plugins will have
their's own debs maintained by plugin's developers. In any other case
you'll have eventually install something through eclipse's internal
installer which is bad. Not because it's just bad but because you will
have two managers - apt and eclipse messing with the same software. You
will never be sure which way to use next time because one will work
better for one set of lugins and other will work for some other set, and
you will never know who's responsible of the failure - plugin creator,
eclipse, or repo package maintainer.

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