port uninstall silently ignores unknown flags?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:19 PM, David Glasser wrote:
> 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?

It does for short arguments, but not for long-form ones (see  
"port.tcl" line 2197).

I'm not sure if the existing behavior is used by anyone, or not, though.
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