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On Wednesday 25 November 2009 19:20:43 Chuck Robey wrote: |
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> I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on my gentoo |
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> box. First question is, is there a Galileo (3.5+) version of eclipse |
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> available as a portage package? I can't find it, so I'd really appreciate |
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> a pointer. The only thing I can see is a fairly old eclipse version (I |
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> think a year or more out of date). |
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> Second question, at the eclipse website, I see a binary version of the |
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> latest Linux-eclipse (the version I'm after). If I *can't* get a portage |
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> package version of Galileo-eclipse, then if I install the binary package |
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> (non-portage) from the eclipse website, can I get (and how can I get) |
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> portage to consider this package as supplying any dependency which would |
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> be otherwise supplied by the latest (ganymede, 3.4+) portage version of |
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> the eclipse tool |
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Have you considered simply installing the binary eclipse into ~ and |
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maintaining it using the bundled eclipse tools? This removes portage out of |
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the equation entirely - no fooling around with *provided |
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That is the method used by most Linux users and it's highly unlikely it won't |
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work - gentoo doesn't do weird things with where libs etc are stored. |
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Plus, you have the advantage of being to install plugins directly from eclipse |
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without having to become root and run emerge. It the same order of magnitude |
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as using Firefox to install it's own plugins. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |