What would you like published? This was in testing for a while, and the move to binaries was discussed on arch-dev-public.

I dared not delay the release of eclipse yet another month; it's been enough hell in the last year.

Published = place information similarly to this: http://www.archlinux.org/news/370/

I'm maintainer of 5 eclipse plug-ins in AUR, and it's important information that eclipse will stay in /opt from now.
Sorry that I'm not read arch-dev-public.

PS. I'm very happy that new eclipse is in extra. I add this Feature Request just because I was not certain that eclipse will stay in /opt and if I should fixed my packages in AUR. Other AUR-packagers can have same objections.

In fact I went to update eclipse-subclipse and I have to admit I am quite puzzled... Paul, was this an intentional move? I'll wait for your reply before updating everything.

We have switched to using the eclipse binary distribution.

It appears to me that with the binary distribution, you cannot configure where eclipse lives.

Does anyone know how if there's an endorsed way to relocate the binary version of eclipse? If so, I would like to keep it in /usr/share, but I believe I had concluded this wasn't possible/clean.

Also, please look into the "dropins" directory for use with 3.4 instead of using "plugins" or "features" directly.

Well, I just modified your PKGBUILD to copy everything in the old location instead of /opt and everything seems to work fine.
If you revert it to /usr, then remember to change eclipse.desktop accordingly (and fix the error desktop-file-validate shows). It would also be a good addition having a /usr/bin/eclipse script...

Eclipse in /opt is no problem for me. It's only important to make a decision where eclipse will stay resonable fast.

PS. I was using eclipse (binary, in ver. about 3.1-3.2) in directory other than /opt and I don't remember any problems. But it is very hard say if every plugin/configuration will be work good in unstandard location.

PS2. I have one more small problem with eclipse 3.4-2 from extra: No icon in gnome menu (entry is visible and work but it's without graphics icon).

As far as I could find, eclipse is not bound to any installation directory. I searched the wiki and found this: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Eclipse_3.3_.2F_Europa
Quote: «Otherwise, download an Eclipse SDK or Runtime Binary or a Europa Bundle, then unpack it and start it up». On the 'start up' page this is said: «Browse to the directory where you unpacked Eclipse, then run eclipse or ./eclipse». Then there's no need to be in a specific directory.
There still isn't a Ganymede-dedicated section, but I suppose nothing changed. Furthermore, being eclipse a java app, it shouldn't be bound by its "real" location, it should just use it as a base to find plugins.

For devs/TUs that need references about the dropins directory, this is what I've found: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins

Thanks for all the research and useful input on this.

I'm moving it back to /usr/share. Packages will be up on Gerolde in extra as soon as they finish uploading.

There'll be an announcement to clear things up on the front page, as well.