[news.eclipse.tools] Use of the eclipse\links folder?

["Hans Schwäbli" <hans.schwaebli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I create a "links" folder inside the eclipse folder and create a text
file in that new folder which is called anyname.link and which contains a
text like "path=w:\", then eclipse looks in that specified path for plugins
and features.

But what is the use of it?

I had the idea to point to a CVS synchronized drive because I wanted to have
the plugins we use in a team to be synchronized in an easy way for all
workers. But I think this doesn't work since when I press update the plugin
can't be updated because it is loaded by eclipse. Or is it only loaded if it
is used before?

So my questions are the use of that links folder and if we can use it for
CVS update of our custom eclipse plugins?