And what when a third-party plugin wants to upgrade the JDT? or a
similar core plugin that an Eclipse package would need to provide in
order to make Eclipse usable out of the box?

Eclipse's plugin manager can only "handle itself" correctly on a single-
user system, unless you start making system directories world-
writable...

Perhaps the answer is to modify /usr/bin/eclipse so that it copies a
skeleton of all the packaged plugins into the user's home directory the
first time it is run, and always use those instead. This way the
problems of file permissions and plugins affecting other user's accounts
are avoided.

@Rockwalrus:
Are you still actively working on the Eclipse package in the PPA? I'd be happy 
to try this theory out, if it is worthwhile?

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