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Bug 480756 - Switch to root level features to allow users to remove unwanted features
Summary: Switch to root level features to allow users to remove unwanted features
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 332989
Alias: None
Product: EPP
Classification: Technology
Component: java-package (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 4.6.0M6   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2015-10-27 06:58 EDT by Lars Vogel CLA
Modified: 2016-02-21 05:56 EST (History)
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Description Lars Vogel CLA 2015-10-27 06:58:58 EDT 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Lars Vogel CLA

        

        
        

        
          2015-10-27 07:00:26 EDT
        

      






From https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=480696#c8
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My experience with Mylyn is that simply its presence as a plugin causes the whole of Eclipse to slow down and become unstable. It feels like the Mylyn tentacles reach everywhere. This will of course seem very unfair to the authors of Mylyn.

As such, my experience is that simply hiding the UI component is missing the point. What is needed is a way to get rid of it entirely. Whether that be a mechanism to disable plugins from standard downloads, replacing standard downloads with a "choose your plugins" tickbox list, or redefining the standard downloads doesn't really matter. Right now, the only approach to avoid Mylyn is to download the SDK.
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I think it would be good if the Java EPP switches to root level features which would allow the user to remove unwanted features.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Markus Knauer CLA

        

        
        

        
          2015-10-28 05:43:28 EDT
        

      






Actually my plan is to convince all package maintainers to change the structure of their packages with Neon, after I successfully changed it in the RCP/RAP package for the Mars release.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Markus Knauer CLA

        

        
        

        
          2016-02-21 05:56:06 EST
        

      






Bug 332989 ("Allow parts of a package to upgraded or removed") has a broader scope... closing this here as duplicate.

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