diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index d8d3641..1687dba 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Version history: 0.83
+ * Added option, --ignore-modules.
+
 Version history: 0.82
  * Add hack to make kdebindings build using builddir == srcdir even though
    srcdir is really != builddir.  Unfortunately, kdebindings still won't
diff --git a/doc.html.in b/doc.html.in
index 81abf6d..13298d6 100644
--- a/doc.html.in
+++ b/doc.html.in
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ those who either can't or don't feel like installing it.</p>
 <p id="emailaddy">It is authored by Michael Pyne (mpyne (AT) grammarian (DOT) homelinux 
 (DOT) net), and is one of several build scripts for this purpose.</p>
 
+<p><b>2004-Aug-29:</b> v0.83<br/>
+New features:
+<ul>
+<li>Added the <a href="#cmdline-ignore-modules">--ignore-modules</a> option,
+which allows you to specify modules to skip from the CVS and build process, by
+request of Matt Rogers.</li>
+<li>Also, kdecvs-build is now hosted in KDE's kdenonbeta CVS module.</li>
+</ul>
+
 <p><b>2004-Aug-12:</b> v0.82<br/>
 New features:
 <ul>
@@ -127,60 +136,6 @@ Bugfixes:
 <li>Fixed an output alignment error discovered by Michal Rokos.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p><b>2004-Jul-11:</b> v0.77<br/>
-<i>OK, <b>this</b> will be the last one, berkus really wanted the included new
-feature.</i><br/>
-New features:
-<ul>
-<li>Added <a href="#conf-inst-apps">inst-apps</a> configure option, which
-affects the build process by only building the specified top-level
-directories.  The entire module will still be downloaded, however.  This
-option doesn't take effect until you re-run make -f Makefile.cvs (either by <a
-href="#cmdline-refresh-build">--refresh-build</a> or a <a
-href="#cmdline-recreate-configure">--recreate-configure</a>).</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>2004-Jul-11:</b> v0.76<br/>
-<i>This will probably be the last release before I go out of town for a week
-or so on the 14<sup>th</sup>.  If you send me mail and don't get a response
-while I'm gone, that's why.</i><br/>
-New features:
-<ul>
-<li>Added the <a href="#cmdline-cvs-only">--cvs-only</a> command line option,
-as suggested and coded by Kurt Hindenburg.  Although equivalent to <a
-href="#cmdline-no-build">--no-build</a> at this point, that may change in the
-future.  If you really want no CVS updates, you should use this argument.</li>
-<li>To be consistent, I went and added the <a
-href="#cmdline-build-only">--build-only</a> switch.  It disables CVS updates
-and the install process.</li>
-</ul>
-
-Bugfixes:
-<ul>
-<li>Updated the <a href="#cmdline-help">--help</a> documentation, including
-some command line options I had left out and a spelling fix.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><b>2004-Jul-02:</b> v0.75<br/>
-New features:
-<ul>
-<li>Added the <a href="#cmdline-rc-file">--rc-file</a> command line option,
-as suggested by Kurt Hindenburg.</li>
-</ul>
-
-Bugfixes:
-<ul>
-<li>Make <a href="#cmdline-debug">--debug</a> option use the logging
-functionality in addition to outputting to stdout, as suggested by Kurt
-Hindenburg.</li>
-<li>Add a signal handler for SIGPIPE to keep the script from leaving lockfiles
-around after piping the output into less.</li>
-<li>Silence warnings when the script informs you that you need to create a
-.kdecvs-buildrc by using the correct exit function.</li>
-<li>Try to build modules even if one of the updates happened to fail.</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
-
 <hr>
 <a name="features"></a>
 <h3>Features</h3>
@@ -767,6 +722,9 @@ act like you did.</li>
 
 <li id="cmdline-build-only">--build-only, Only perform the build process.</li>
 
+<li id="cmdline-ignore-modules">--ignore-modules, Don't including the modules
+passed on the rest of the command line in the update/build process.</li>
+
 <li id="cmdline-no-cvs">--no-cvs, Skip contacting the CVS server.</li>
 
 <li id="cmdline-no-build">--no-build, Skip the build process.</li>
@@ -840,7 +798,7 @@ href="#options">.kdecvs-buildrc options</a>.
 <div align="center" class="thankyou">
 <font size="-1"><a href="http://www.cvsup.org/">CVSup</a> is a registered trademark of John D. Polstra.
 <br/>
-Last modified: Thu Aug 12 22:46:40 2004</font>
+Last modified: Sun Aug 29 00:46:53 2004</font>
 </div>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/kdecvs-build b/kdecvs-build
index 7b94287..39208ff 100755
--- a/kdecvs-build
+++ b/kdecvs-build
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ my %global_opts = (
 );
 
 my %package_opts; # Holds module-specific options.
+my %ignore_list;  # List of packages to refuse to include in the build list.
 my @update_list;  # List of modules to update/checkout.
 my @build_list;   # List of modules to build.
 my $install_flag; # True if we're in install mode.
@@ -530,11 +531,11 @@ sub read_options
         }
 
         # Done reading options, add this module to the update list
-        push (@update_list, $modulename);
+        push (@update_list, $modulename) unless exists $ignore_list{$modulename};
 
         # Add it to the build list, unless the build is only
         # supposed to be done manually.
-        if (not get_option ($modulename, 'manual-build'))
+        if (not get_option ($modulename, 'manual-build') and not exists $ignore_list{$modulename})
         {
             push (@build_list, $modulename);
         }
@@ -623,7 +624,7 @@ sub process_arguments
 {
     my $arg;
     my $author = "Michael Pyne <michael.pyne\@kdemail.net>";
-    my $version = "kdecvs-build 0.82\n";
+    my $version = "kdecvs-build 0.83\n";
     my @argv;
 
     while ($_ = shift @ARGV)
@@ -775,6 +776,32 @@ DONE
                 last SWITCH;
             };
 
+            /^--ignore-modules$/ && do {
+                # We need to keep read_options() from adding these modules to
+                # the build list, taken care of by ignore_list.  We then need
+                # to remove the modules from the command line, taken care of
+                # by the @ARGV = () statement;
+                my @options = ();
+                foreach (@ARGV)
+                {
+                    if (/^-/)
+                    {
+                        push @options, $_;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        $ignore_list{$_} = 1;
+
+                        # the pattern match doesn't work with $_, alias it.
+                        my $module = $_;
+                        @argv = grep (!/^$module$/, @argv);
+                    }
+                }
+                @ARGV = @options;
+
+                last SWITCH;
+            };
+
             /^(--pretend)|(-p)$/ && do {
                 $global_opts{'#pretend'} = 1;
                 last SWITCH;