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Bug 327157

Summary:	Make Mylin optional or at least uninstallable
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Tomas Varaneckas <tomas.varaneckas>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Mylyn Inbox <mylyn-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Tomas Varaneckas

2010-10-06 15:28:58 EDT

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Eclipse has been force feeding developers with Mylin for quite a long time, and it make Eclipse closer to being bloatware. It would definitely be lovely for the community to have a possibility to remove Mylin or to install it as an additional component for those who want it.

You can google for people opinions about Mylin and especially about not being able to remove it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Get eclipse, Mylin is there, no way to remove it.

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2010-10-25 12:48:39 EDT

I am sorry to hear that you wish to uninstall Mylyn. It is correct that most packages provided by Eclipse only have a single root feature and do allow individual components to be uninstalled.

I can assure you that Mylyn has an negligible impact on Eclipse if it is not used. If you follow the following steps none of the Mylyn plugins will get loaded on startup:

* Close the Task LIst view
* Disable Mylyn Tasks UI and Mylyn Team UI under General > Startup and Shutdown

Additionally, you can remove Mylyn UI contributions under General > Capabilities by disabling the Tasks category (not all Eclipse packages provide that option).

Alternatively, you can use an Eclipse package such as the SDK that does not include Mylyn by default. Eclipse also provides a bare-bones RCP download that only has required components which can be extended as needed.

Tomas, to help us understand better how we can improve could you provide more details as to how and when you noticed an impact of Mylyn on your Eclipse installation?

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2011-04-05 15:19:49 EDT

I'm marking this as resolved due to a lack of input. Please feel free to reopen with a response to comment 1.