Ron Kracht wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks for the reply.

What about for the main Eclipse modules like JDT? Is this likely to
cause clashes with portage? The reason I ask is that I ran update a few
weeks ago but I didn't have the appropriate privilages and so it failed
to complete. When I rebooted, some time later, I found my GDM was
trashed. I don't know for sure that this was related to the Eclipse
update but it seemed likely. What do you reckon?

P.S. What do you think to Eclipse?

T.