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Currently, in the Package Explorer, there are a million JAR files at the top level, each with a little jar-looking icon. This lists every JAR that I added under the Libraries tab in "Java Build Path" as JARs or External JARs. Preferably, all this clutter would be consigned to a single node in the Package Explorer's top level, perhaps named "libraries" or "jars". It has been suggested to use Filters:Referenced Libraries as a workaround. However, at present, this does not work. The JARs are still there; the only libraries filtered are system libraries (this is probably a symptom of an ambiguous definition of the term "libraries" as defined both in the "Libraries" tab and somewhere else). Moreover, I don't necessarily want them to disappear, and I don't want to have to edit filters to access them. I just want them to go one level down in the hierarchy. (But I'd take the filter workaround too.)
We addressed this for JRE containers but not for normal external Jars. We are now in a mode where we only consider critical bugs for 2.1. Have to postpone this one.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31363 ***
