That's because you either made it world-writable or you run as an admin user, either of which is kind of evil.
ms
On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:53 AM, John Huss wrote:
> I have put eclipse into /Applications forever and I've never had a single problem with permissions. I think that is a non-issue.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Kieran Kelleher <kelleher..mail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> I disagree with you and Timo, and I agree with Mike and others. ;-)
>
> In summary 2 good reasons for installing in ~/Applications, considering that novice/intermediate users are the ones we are trying to make life easy for.....
>
> 1) Writeable Eclipse dir ... keep writeable in user dir. Prevent permission issues that 'stump' newbies into giving up too early.
>
> 2) Painless migrations to new machines
>
> -Kieran
>
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 7:54 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty against ~/Applications. Nothing installs there by default. Why would we make an installer that's targeted at getting new users up and running install in a place other than the normal /Applications? Sure ~/Applications is _better_ but it's not _normal_.
> >
> > If they're advanced enough to want it in ~/Applications then they can move it.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> I had no idea what I was getting myself into....heh.
> >>
> >> This is for newbies...generally speaking, so we'll do ~/Applications...maybe offer a choice...dunno yet.
> >>
> >> -j
> >>
> >> On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I was the same until recently when I switched to a new machine and forgot to copy over eclipse for the umteen'th time. So I moved it to my home directory instead.
> >>>>
> >>>> If eclipse kept it's plugins and other global config in my home directory I would have no reason to keep it there also.
> >>> welcome to one of the longest-standing debates in eclipse history
> >>>
> >>> ms
> >>
> >
>
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