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Bug 208676

Summary: [engine] handle/support copying of profile area
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Jeff McAffer <jeffmcaffer>
Component: p2Assignee: P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: pascal
Version: 3.4Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Jeff McAffer CLA 2007-11-03 13:44:17 EDT 
it will probably be attractive for people to think they can copy the profile area (the area that has the eclipse.exe, configuration dir, ...) once they have installed using the agent.  of course, if they do this they will be creating a copy of the profile "implementation" without actually making a new profile.  This iwll likely confuse the agent data somehow and lead to confusion for the user.

We can either facilitate this case somehow or detect it and flag an error.
Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-09-08 21:39:13 EDT 
Consider as part of the robustness effort in 3.5.
Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-12-12 22:12:53 EST 
Given that in 3.5 we are still not promoting bundle pooling this is less of an issue.