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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:07:34
Message-Id: 200911252050.23731.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package by Chuck Robey
1 On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:20:43 Chuck Robey wrote:
2 > I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on my gentoo
3 > box. First question is, is there a Galileo (3.5+) version of eclipse
4 > available as a portage package? I can't find it, so I'd really appreciate
5 > a pointer. The only thing I can see is a fairly old eclipse version (I
6 > think a year or more out of date).
7 >
8 > Second question, at the eclipse website, I see a binary version of the
9 > latest Linux-eclipse (the version I'm after). If I *can't* get a portage
10 > package version of Galileo-eclipse, then if I install the binary package
11 > (non-portage) from the eclipse website, can I get (and how can I get)
12 > portage to consider this package as supplying any dependency which would
13 > be otherwise supplied by the latest (ganymede, 3.4+) portage version of
14 > the eclipse tool
15
16 Have you considered simply installing the binary eclipse into ~ and
17 maintaining it using the bundled eclipse tools? This removes portage out of
18 the equation entirely - no fooling around with *provided
19
20 That is the method used by most Linux users and it's highly unlikely it won't
21 work - gentoo doesn't do weird things with where libs etc are stored.
22
23 Plus, you have the advantage of being to install plugins directly from eclipse
24 without having to become root and run emerge. It the same order of magnitude
25 as using Firefox to install it's own plugins.
26
27 --
28 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse portage package Chuck Robey <chuckr@×××××××.org>