On Mar 20 Andrew Overholt did spake thusly:
Hi,
* Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-03-15 23:18]:
I'm trying to set up Eclipse 3.2.2 on my laptop. The first problem I
hit is that the locations available for saving extensions are all in
root territory, /usr/share and /usr/lib. So of course as a non-root
user I can't write to them. Is there a location for local storage of
extensions? No, that would be too easy.
Actually, we carry a patch in our Fedora Eclipse packages to enable
users to install into ~/.eclipse. It should be transparent to a user
who attempts to install something via an update site. For those playing
along at home, you'll be interested to note that this patch is finally
getting applied upstream since Windows Vista apparently doesn't like
non-root/administrator users writing to application directories ...
fancy that :).
Which is the correct behaviour... ;)
User installed stuff should go in the user profile directories on both
OSen
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