Modules, contents roots and source paths

Here is the SCR (still as "To Be Discussed"):
http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=15907

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r.


Calum MacLean wrote:

In IDEA 3.0, if you had the following source structure: src com mycompany
package1 package2 package3 you could select the folder containing package2 as
a project path. IDEA would then "automagically" pick up that src was the
sourcepath for your project.

In IDEA 4.0, if I select package2 as a Content Root of a module, then I can
only mark the Content Root or one of its child folders as source folders.

So, from what I can understand, I don't think the previous use case can be
done as simply as before. The only way to do it would be to select src as
the Content Root, and then exclude everything apart from the package you're
interested in.

Is my understanding correct here? If so, this situation seems rather more
ackward in IDEA 4.0 than in IDEA 3.0.