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Subject: Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter
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On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:

<snip some unnecessary banter>

>  It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion.
>
>  However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail
> archive for ever and ever and not ever do anything all by itself.
>
>  I think the point that cgf is getting at is that there is no shortage of
> suggestions or good ideas or enhancement requests or wish lists nor any
> difficulty in coming up with new ones.  But without a bit of getting-it-done
> elbow grease, a suggestion is really very little use on its own.

Where's the source?  I've wanted this feature since my first attempt
to use cygwin.  I'll implement it.

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