Eclipse: where’s my plugin? In da $HOME!
Eclipse will finally store user installed plugins into user’s $HOME folder IF the folder into which Eclipse is installed is not writable.
This problem affected every Linux distribution and, thanks to the guys from the Fedora project (Ben Konrath in particular), a patch was provided since Eclipse 3.1.
The bug was filed on April, 2005 (!!!). Hopefully linux-distro project will take care of such problems in the future.
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