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Fedora Eclipse Packages
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This diagram details the inter-dependancies of the Fedora Eclipse 3.2.1 packages. Feel free to modify the original dia source file for your distribution's Eclipse packages.
The packages mirror the features from the upstream SDK with the following exceptions:
- The
eclipse-ecj
package contains thejdt.core
plugin with symlinks in/usr/share/java
so that the batch compiler can be used without installing the full JDT and dependencies. - The
eclipse-pde-runtime
package contains thepde.runtime
plugin so that non-SDK features that requirepde.runtime
don't have to pull in the PDE feature. - There is an additional dependency from the
eclipse-pde
package to theeclipse-platform-sdk
package. The idea here is that a user who installs theeclipse-pde
will most likely want the view source code from the Platform when they are coding up their plugins.
With this setup the only post/postun tweaking that needs to be done is that eclipse.product
needs to be set appropriately in eclipse/configuration/config.ini
- we no longer need the rebuild-sdk-features script. When the eclipse-rcp
package is installed, eclipse.product
should be commentted out (i.e. set to "#eclipse.product
"). When the eclipse-platform
package is installed, eclipse.product
should be set to org.eclipse.platform.ide
(i.e. "eclipse.product=org.eclipse.platform.ide
"). And finally, when the eclipse-sdk
package is installed, eclipse.product
should be set to org.eclipse.sdk.ide
(i.e. "eclipse.product=org.eclipse.sdk.ide
"). Refer to the %post/%postun
sections of the Fedora Eclipse spec file for implementation details.