Bug#447202: eclipse-platform: Not start-/usable for normal users

[Kai Wb.]

notfound 447202 1.2.13-1
thanks

Package: eclipse-platform
Version: 3.2.2-4
Followup-For: Bug #447202

Hello Michael,

Michael Koch wrote:
> This issue is not so trivial. Different users have different needs. A
> possible solution for this would be eclipse-cdt depending on
> eclipse-platform *AND* recommending eclipse. This will install whole
> eclipse for normal users but allows more experienced users to not
> install eclipse if not needed.

Ok, that is true since aptitue/apt-get pulls in recommends on default. But that
is a behaviour of apt-get/aptitude I'm not quite comfortable with (it bloats the
system a lot) and I've deactivated. Personally I would tend to the suggested
solution, that an eclipse-bin package should be created [0,1]. Would that
introduce other (maybe more serious) problems (apart from increasing the
complexity of the build process)? Or would that be the "easy" solution?

Kind regards,
Kai

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447202#5 ("option three" in
the list of possible solutions)
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447202#22



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