audit.rules being really processed sequentially?

Hello, In my pursuit of taming auditd in that it only logs what has explicitly been defined and nothing more, I've thought of a set of catch all rules at the end. As the rules file is supposedly being processed sequentially, i.e. first hit matches, this ought to work. But it doesn't. Having a very simple rules file as an example: -D -e 1 -a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S execve -F path=/bin/vi -k EDIT_FILE -a always,exclude -F msgtype=EXECVE -a always,exclude -F msgtype=FD_PAIR -a always,exclude -F msgtype=FS_RELABEL ... (continue this for every messagetype from this link: https://access.redhat.com/articles/4409591#audit-record-types-2) As easily to be guessed, my expectation would be, the invokation of vi by anyone would get logged, as that rules comes first, but really nothing else, as it is being discaded by the catchall rules. Surprisingly however, in reality, nothing gets logged at all, not even the invocation of vi. Now, removing those catchall rules at the end does log the calling of vi, but of course also all other stuff I neither have defined nor want to be written out. So, if the audit.rules file really is being processed sequentally, what am I missing in my approach? Thanks very much for any insight. Ede