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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:51:03 +0900
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Subject: Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter
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I agree with reikred below.  Search, functionality would be greatly
appreciated.  It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually
look for a searched for package.

But, I suspect that, this isn't the list to write about setup.exe
I believe it has its own list.

reikred AT gmail DOT com wrote:

> I find that scrolling through all the packages shown in the package
> selection window of setup.exe can be very tedious.
>
> Sometime I don't know exactly what a package is called, other times
> I am hunting around on a hunch, but in any case I do not want to
> scroll through the whole list to find it.
>
> So: Does setup.exe have a package selection filter that can help,
> and if not, shouldn't it? I have missed this for a long time....
>
> ..............

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