On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote:

Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken
> at the moment, due to '-x' being broken.
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html
>
> If you really need this, please try old setup versions from [2].  If you
> discover which version it got broken in, and/or work out how to fix it,
> please let us know.
>
> [2] https://cygwin.com/setup/
>

Completed testing. The last version where:

--include-source --local-package-dir "path" -x "package[,...]" -P
"package[,...]"

...worked was 2.918. It does not work in 2.919 and later.

Bill