Bug#358594: eclipse binary, desktop/menu things should be in eclipse-platform

[Stephan Michels]

2006/3/23, Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.1.2
>
> Forwarded from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/35871
>
> I have just installed eclipse-platform-gcj on dapper and I have no
> /usr/bin/eclipse script anywhere on my system. It appears this is
> supposed to be in the eclipse-platform-common package but it's not.
>
> Even though it shouldn't be required, I tried installing the full
> eclipse package and sure enough /usr/bin/eclipse was hiding
> there. This is not a viable solution, however, as the eclipse package
> additionally requires me to install:
>
> ant-optional, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-jdt-common, eclipse-pde,
> eclipse-pde-common, eclipse-source, junit
>
> None of which I want to install. It seems that the core
> eclipse-platform files like /usr/bin/eclipse should either be moved
> back to eclipse-platform-common or the SDK files (and required
> dependencies) should be moved back into the eclipse-sdk package as it
> used to be.

The eclipse executeable should be in the eclipse package.
eclipse-platform-gcj is not a stand-alone package
Through the installation of the eclipse package you ensure that you
have everything installed.

If you don't install all eclipse packages, then you will have missing
dependencies in eclipse if you don't install for example the pde
plugins. Eclipse won't work correctly without patching the features.
And even if
it works with patching of the features, I don't think it's a good idea,
because other plugins can depend on the core plugins and then they
will missing some plugins.

@Michael: I really think its a better idea to a have one package, The
current situation caused to much troubles. What do you think?

Stephan Michels.