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

[Michael Koch]

Hello Kai,


On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:51:16PM +0200, Kai Wb. wrote:
> Hm, I see your point. And this was no problem for me, but a friend of mine who
> is quite new to Debian installed eclipse-cdt and thought that Debian/dpkg would
> solve all dependencies for him. Which is the normal behaviour. But all the
> plugins he required depended only on eclipse-platform and the description reads
> that it provides the "Eclipse Platform" and it is the "base for all eclipse
> plug-ins". Which is easily interpreted as "I have to select eclipse-cdt and get
> an eclipse-installation with CDT-support".
> 
> Maybe this bug should be redirected to the plug-ins because they depend only on
> eclipse-platform. Eventually you could clarify the description of the package,
> so everyone sees clearly that he needs eclipse for a running installation.

Sorry for the delay and thanks for the ping.

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.

To make this happen we first need to fix that long-standing eclipse-cdt
FTBFS bug...


Cheers,
Michael