455363 – Allow users to uninstall features from a package

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Bug 455363 - Allow users to uninstall features from a package

Summary: Allow users to uninstall features from a package

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 332989

Alias:	None

Product:	EPP
Classification:	Technology
Component:	java-package (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	later
Assignee:	Project Inbox
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Depends on:	455289
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Reported:	2014-12-16 12:07 EST by Pascal Rapicault
Modified:	2014-12-16 17:09 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Pascal Rapicault

2014-12-16 12:07:56 EST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #455289 +++

Bundling features is a great way to organize features. The problem is that child features cannot be uninstalled. But it would be great if it was impossible to uninstall child features.

see Bug 435681#c1 and a question in stack overflow 
   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27489852/uninstall-mylyn-from-eclipse-luna

Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2014-12-16 12:22:27 EST

Pascal

Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2014-12-16 12:23:09 EST

Pascal, do you have any recommendations how the packages product + feature structure can be changed?

Comment 3 Pascal Rapicault

2014-12-16 15:53:15 EST

I drafted something here (https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/38382/) that uses Tycho's ability to install some features of a product as root. The resulting product allows the user to uninstall the feature.

Recap of the changes:
- Introduce a new feature that contains all the mylyn things (jenkins, bugzilla, git integration)
- Remove mylyn things from the main epp.java.feature
- Add the new feature to the product
- Add the new feature to the build

It may worth investigating whether several mylyn features are necessary.

Comment 4 Markus Knauer

2014-12-16 17:09:10 EST

Moving my answers to an older bug... bug 332989.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 332989 ***