On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:57:51 +0000, thall wrote:

> Is it safe to update Eclipse using its internal update facility or
> should portage always be used?
>
> T.

In my experience. I'd have to say it depends. For updates and plugins that
are in portage I use portage. For things that I want that are not yet
in portage I either do automatic updates or manual installs.

Since I run Eclipse as a non-root user I modified the permissions on the
/opt/eclipse/features and /opt/eclipse/plugins directories in order to
perform the internal updates. I did this by creating a new group, putting
myself in the group, and opening up the group permissions for the
directories to allow writing. This worked for updating Eclipse and for
some plugins but I had problems with automatic updates of some features (C
environment) and some plugins. Since I wanted some of these additions and
they were also not yet in portage I downloaded the applicable archives and
installed them manually - which worked fine and was trivial to accomplish.

One word of caution - after one of these updates Eclipse did not find my
workspace (a subdirectory beneath my home directory) and I had to restart
Eclipse with (I believe) a -data workspace_directory command line option.
Since then it has found the workspace without that command line option.