It shouldn't be so hard to figure out Eclipse install dependencies

I just spent an absurd amount of time trying to install m2e in a non-Java Developer packaging of Eclipse Luna. A lot of people have put a lot of work into making this easier but it still is something that seems to require a lot of specialized knowledge and folklore about how the Eclipse tools and community works and, well, that's really not something someone who just wants to be an Eclipse IDE user should really have to immerse themselves in just to install one thing.

Anyway, it turns out that m2e 1.5 and up needs Guava, and in particular a bundling of it from something called the Orbit project.

The results of my explorations are here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31693823/m2e-extension-is-not-installing-in-eclipse-luna

I guess the silver lining here is my StackOverflow reputation more than doubled while I was putting this together.