Bug#385350: wish eclipse-cdt depended only on eclipse-platform (not eclipse-pde)

CSights csights at fastmail.fm
Wed Aug 30 17:12:49 UTC 2006


Package: eclipse-cdt
Version: 3.0.1-3
Severity: normal

Hello,
	Most importantly, thanks for maintaining eclipse in the debian package 
system!
	Would it be possible to have eclipse-cdt depend only on eclipse-platform 
rather than eclipse-pde?
	The C++ plugin from the eclipse.org website can be setup to run with only 
the "platform runtime binary" installed.  From the eclipse website:
"
Platform Runtime Binary

These drops contain only the Eclipse Platform with user documentation and no 
source and no programmer documentation. The Java development tools and 
Plug-in Development Environment are NOT included. You can use these drops to 
help you package your tool plug-ins for redistribution when you don't want to 
ship the entire SDK.
"
	This sounds equivalent to the debian package "eclipse-platform", so it seems 
as though eclipse-cdt could depend only on "eclipse-platform".
	Benefits:  Simpliar C++ IDE b/c won't have ignore the Java and plugin 
development menus installed with from eclipse-pde and eclipse-jdt.  Smaller 
download and install size.

Thanks again!
	C.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (25, 'dapper-updates'), 
(25, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages eclipse-cdt depends on:
ii  eclipse-pde                   3.1.2-2    Plug-in Development Environment 
to
ii  exuberant-ctags [ctags]       1:5.6-1    build tag file indexes of source 
c

eclipse-cdt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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