portmaster -x not working?

[Lawrence Stewart]

Doug Barton wrote:
> Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Today, I again had need of the ability to exclude multiple ports from an
>> update run. It turns out your tip doesn't work with portmaster, though I
>> suspect it would with portupgrade.
> 
> For now, if you need to exclude more than one port you can check the
> man page about +IGNOREME files.
> 

Ok cool. I would definitely like to be able to specify things 
dynamically on a per-run basis as well though without adding +IGNOREME 
files. I often want to special case the exclusion of ports one time only.

>> Doug, what do you think of the attached patch?
> 
> I think it's interesting, but not quite how I would do it. I have
> plans to rewrite the command line parser in order to accommodate this,
> and make things easier to work with generally, so stay tuned.

No problemo, will stay tuned.

Cheers,
Lawrence