port uninstall silently ignores unknown flags?

[David Glasser]

I've been sitting here typing variations

$ sudo port uninstall --force subversion @1.4.2_0

for ten minutes before somebody nice on IRC told me to try -f.
Shouldn't port complain when it sees an unknown flag?

--dave

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