Comment 15 for bug 67858

The eclipse packages installs the complete eclipse. You can install eclipse-jdt if you want to have only the Java Development Tools. eclipse-jdt does not pull eclipse-pde and eclipse-plugin-cvs. You can install eclipse-platform if want to have only the platform (e.g. if you want to use cdt).
The important change is, that eclipse-platform contains the menu and desktop files. So you can live without the eclipse package. The eclipse package is now a meta-package.