Comment 2 for bug 485167

Hi

I agree with you that eclipse ought to have "per-user" configurations and even if eclipse does not support it out of the box, it can be done with just (shell) scripting[1]. Nevertheless, we recently received a similar question on the Debian-java list [2], where a maintainer wanted to add an argument to eclipse. He/She also suggested the "per-user" configuration - but this would require that the user manually edited their own configuration, when they installed this package.

Therefore I think we need something like an /etc/eclipse/eclipse.ini.d/ folder as well and a script that can sanely merge a couple of eclipse.ini files. Possible with an eclipserc that determines if the user wants /etc/eclipse/eclipse.ini.d/ parsed.

The importance wishlist (at least in Debian) means that it is considered a feature request (or a suggestion); personally I think this will be fixed (if left on its own) the next time I am stuck with another problem and out of frustration need to fix something to feel progress.

~Niels

[1] I would probably not use a shell script here due to how shells handles variables (especially when passed to another application)

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2009/11/msg00050.html