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author Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de>
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1 Title: Eclipse link files
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2 Date: 2009-03-03
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3 Lang: en
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5 Starting with Eclipse Ganymede you have a *dropins* folder into which you can drop custom plugins that don't come via an update site.
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7 Some plugins come with a feature, however so you're forced to mainain a directory structure below the dropins folder. Add working across different Eclipse installations (probably on different hosts) to the mix and you'll have a bit of boring, repetitive work mainaining the the dropins folder.
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9 Enter link files (mentioned [briefly here](http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started#Dropins)). I have put all of the additional plugins in a custom mercurial repository that I sync on all machines that I use. The only modifications I still have to make to the local Eclipse installation is setting up the .link file - very handy.