Collection-repeat animation on delete

Hi folks, has anyone figured out any tricks on how to get exit animation with ion-lists which are collection-repeat?

Everything works great when its a regular ion-list with ng-repeat but animations don't work with collection-repeat. I have to use collection-repeat because the list is very large and I need the list to be editable (deletable) -- and am trying to add an animation when a list item is deleted because its very hard to visually follow if there is no animation on deletion. I know collection-repeat re-uses cellIDs for performance but there must be a way

Any hacks?

thanks