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Install NB 5.5 + VWP. From now on, every time you create a plain NB web project, Java project, whatever, a lib/complibs folder is created. This should not happen for non-VWP projects. - Mark
And if you remove them, they will be re-created the next time you start NetBeans 5.5. The only workaround - if you don't want to uninstall the VWP - is to mark these directories as "ignored" with your source repository.
Yes, a serious problem. This has been fixed in the VWP trunk and will be available in the next version of the VWP.
Verified using: NB6: 200706211113 Woodstock 4.1 200706210537 only a lib directory exists, not a lib/complibs.