How to use sf:gdal_utils with extent option (-te)?

I want to build a Gdal VRT dataset with several bands and cropped to a specific region. For that, I’m using sf::gdal_utils but somehow I can’t get the option -te to work. It either complains about an unknown option or does nothing.

How to correctly set the -te option?

Here goes a reprex:

# bug in gdal_utils and buidvrt
# trying to use sf::gdal_utils buildvrt with -te option

library(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.8.0, GDAL 3.0.4, PROJ 7.0.0
library(raster)
#> Loading required package: sp

# just to check extent
#tm <- raster(system.file("tif/L7_ETMs.tif", package="stars"))

# crop file using gdal VRT -te option

# Unknown option -te
# also tried with options te, using just one string instead of c()...
# can't figure out how to use this
gdal_utils(util = 'buildvrt', source = system.file("tif/L7_ETMs.tif", package="stars"),
           destination = 'tm_crop_r.vrt',
           options = c("-te", "290000 9119000 295000 9120000"))
#> Warning in CPL_gdalbuildvrt(source, destination, options, oo, quiet): GDAL Error
#> 6: Unknown option name '-te'

# check the size of the VRT dataset
readLines('tm_crop_r.vrt', n = 1)
#> [1] "<VRTDataset rasterXSize="349" rasterYSize="352">"

# using gdal CLI works

system(paste("gdalbuildvrt -te 290000 9119000 295000 9120000",
             "tm_crop_cli.vrt /home/daniel/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/stars/tif/L7_ETMs.tif"))

readLines('tm_crop_cli.vrt', n = 1)
#> [1] "<VRTDataset rasterXSize="175" rasterYSize="35">"


sessionInfo()
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#> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1
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^{Created on 2020-09-18 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}