Daniel Kreuter wrote:

I don't agree with you at that point. I always take the tarball from eclipse.org (for eclipse) or netbeans.org (for netbeans) instead of the one's of repository provided by the distro.
The reason is quite simple, the one's mentioned above are newer than the one's in the repos (often, not always but everywhere i looked for it, it was so)

But there may be people who will first look in rpmdrake or urpmi that's right, but not everybody.

Well, I didn't say *everybody*, I was referring to newer users who might actually do what we tell them to :-)

The problem is that there is a very high probability that anyone who installs from an RPM will then install plugins directly.  Given that, I would question even packaging the base product as an RPM.