title: Filtering the package explorer in Eclipse
body: <p>I use Eclipse all the time, and yet I might as well be a newbie. The IDE clearly has many, many features; I guess I get overwhelmed. So this might be a dupe, but I couldn't find the same question being asked anywhere.</p>
  
  <p>What I would like to do is this: I have a project that has a <em>lot</em> of packages, most of which are out of my control and I don't really care about. (Basically I'm on a very big team with a large shared codebase.) Can I somehow configure the package explorer so that only the packages I care about are displayed, while still including all those other packages in the project?</p>
  
  <p>For instance, suppose I care about the packages:</p>
  
  <pre><code>com.google.MyProject
  com.google.MyProject.foo
  com.google.MyProject.bar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I'm imagining a settings menu somewhere where I could add the string "com.google.MyProject*" and the package explorer would then hide all those other packages from the list.</p>