On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> I end up with these permissions because after I download eclipse I
>> end up with an eclipse folder in my Downloads folder and I simply
>> copy that into /Developer/Applications. And so it ends up with
>> 'ricardo' being the owner. And I have not had problems.
>>
>> So I was thinking the installer should do the same, i.e. make sure
>> the user owns everything in there.
> Nope ... That works, but it's wrong. Imagine if you had two users on
> your machine? The proper install is the Eclipse folder owned by
> root:admin and your plugins installed in ~/.eclipse. I don't think
> this is a HUGE problem (most people aren't sharing a dev machine),
> but it's definitely wrong.
Yes, I thought of that but since not many people have multiple users
on a machine sharing eclipse it may be a half solution.
But you are right!
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