Bug#491334: replace eclipse.ini by a system wide eclipserc?

[Tanguy Ortolo]

Package: eclipse
Followup-For: Bug #491334

Hello,

I found that these vmargs can be set in the configuration file
~/.eclipse/eclipserc, that is sourced by eclipse launcher, the
/usr/bin/eclipse shell script.

This file cannot fully replace eclipse.ini, however, as it is only
user-specific. So I think a good solution would be to provide the
ability to use a system-wide configuration file, let us say
/etc/eclipse/eclipserc.

Here is a tiny patch to do that: one more sourcing in the
/usr/bin/eclipse shell script, and some information about it in
eclipse(1) manpage.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
ii  eclipse-jdt                   3.2.2-5    Java Development Tools plug-ins fo
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.2.2-5    Plug-in Development Environment to
ii  eclipse-source                3.2.2-5    Eclipse source code plug-ins
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.5-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.11-3  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  zenity                        2.22.1-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages eclipse recommends:
pn  eclipse-gcj                   <none>     (no description available)

eclipse suggests no packages.

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