Eclipse plugins

[Andrew Overholt]

* Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> [2005-10-29 21:10]:
> 
> The Subclipse plugin instructions say you don't need to download anything, 
> just do the install in Eclipse.  But if I do that as a normal user, how 
> can I install in a location owned by root and not world writable?  Would I 
> get prompted for a password or something?

We've got a patch that will hopefully go in 3.2 upstream that defaults to
~/.eclipse if you're not a superuser.  There isn't a way to use the update
manager as a regular user but install things where root can write.  This is
probably something that should be bugzilla'd.  ie. have something like "Do
you want to install this plugin for all users on the system?" ->
pam/whatever prompt; otherwise, install to ~/.eclipse .  If you add a
bugzilla entry upstream, CC me please.

> I worked around the issue by starting Eclipse as root and doing the 
> install there.

This isn't really recommended until all the kinks get worked out with
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=90535 .  However, it will
*probably* work just fine :)

Thanks,

Andrew