Log-file default location ignored when no file is specified for '--logfile'

Rootkit Hunter v. 1.4.6
Shell: bash
OS: Fedora (on Wayland)

 Hello.

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rkhunter(8) | man-pages

-l, --logfile [file]
 "If no specific file is given, then the default will be used."
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 I can reasonably assume that "default" implicitly refers to the LOGFILE
key value that is in rkhunter.conf. Which thus matches the situation where
by default rkhunter writes out a log-file.

Log-file default location

# grep ^LOGFILE /etc/rkhunter.conf
LOGFILE=/var/log/rkhunter/rkhunter.log

To reproduce

$ sudo rkhunter -X --rwo --cronjob --logfile --enable immutable

As a result a log-file is created; its location is /var/log/rkhunter.log.
Then that is unexpectedly according to rkhunter(8) man-pages

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-l, --logfile [file]
 "By default rkhunter will write out a log file. The default location of
the file is /var/log/rkhunter.log."
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 The LOGFILE key value being ignored, does this indicate an issue?
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