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Some plugins require that they are installed into shared directories to use there APIs for development. So to verify proper installation, this information must be available.
I have no idea where should this information be from the UI point of view but it would be nice to have it available. Maybe in tooltip of plugin?
Reassigning to the new "autoupdate/*" owner dlipin.
This bug was reported against NetBeans IDE 6.0 or an older release, or against a non-maintained module. NetBeans team does not have enough resources to get to this issue, therefore we are closing the issue as a WONTFIX. If you are interested in providing a patch for this bug, please see our NetFIX guidelines for how to proceed. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you. The NetBeans Team