Adding ignore/remove option

[sepans]

'excludes.imports' option excludes the imported files from being vulcanized but it leaves the <link rel="import href="..."> tag in the html file.
In order to implement some sort of component lazy loading (using Polymer.import) I wanted to exclude and remove all the tags (as well as other already loaded component dependencies) from the vulcanized file which is being lazy loaded. So having a 'remove.imports' option would be very useful to remove the <link rel="import> tag when the regex matches.

If you agree I can submit a pull request, otherwise any suggestion for better handling this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks

[robdodson]

+100, I think I'm blocked on this :(
It seems like if you exclude something from vulcanize it should just remove everything. I can't think of a use case where I want to exclude something but still have the link tag in there

[sepans]

If I am not missing something Polymer/polymer-bundler#89 should fix this. Currently I am using a grunt-string-replace task as a workaround to remove the tags after vulcanization.

[dfreedm]

(ported comment from #89)
There's a possibility that the excluded import is generated on the server, or has content which vulcanize does not handle well. If that is important I can add a "strip-excludes" option to make it explicit to remove excluded imports. If not, then we can merge #89 after making the tests pass.

[dfreedm]

Actually, let's flip that. The default should strip the excludes, and a --no-strip-excludes flag will turn it off for the small percentage use case that may need it.

[ebidel]

Please document! It's a breaking change.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Freedman notifications@github.com
wrote:

Actually, let's flip that. The default should strip the excludes, and a
--no-strip-excludes flag will turn it off for the small percentage use
case that may need it.

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