port uninstall silently ignores unknown flags?

David Glasser glasser at mit.edu
Thu Nov 9 12:21:32 PST 2006


On 11/9/06, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
> The long options are used in several actions. The qualification of
> these long options is up to individual actions. Currently where these
> are used they test for the presence of particular options, but don't
> look for unknown or malformed options they don't know about. It would
> be possible, though somewhat tiresome, to validate those for each
> action.

OK, I think I see where this behavior comes from in the architecture.
Chalk me up as one user who wishes there was validation, but not quite
enough to learn tcl and actually be useful and submit a patch, then.

--dave

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