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Warn for unsupported package manager flags instead of silently ignoring

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start at the vp pm package-manager compatibility layer and trace how supported and unsupported flags are handled, comparing existing warnings with flags that are silently ignored. Done means unsupported flags consistently produce warnings without changing the behavior of supported flags; the issue does not identify specific files or tests to run.

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Description

enhancement
Description

vp pm is a package manager compatibility layer, since different underlying package managers can have some small differences. It is common to meet cases that there is a --abc flag can be passed to Xpm, but not to Ypm.

The current Vite+'s behavior is not united. It sometimes prints a warning (e.g. --fix-lockfile, --offline, --latest) but it also silently ignores some of them (e.g. --workspace, --save-catalog), which may make users confused.

Suggested solution

We are supposed to show warnings for these cases instead of silently ignoring, it can help users or agents know how to use the package manager correctly.

As for the implementation, I think checking and writing all of them by hand can be a little bit troublesome. We'd better to find a way to check them unitedly or use Rust's language feature like macro or Drop trait to reduce complex works.

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