Why there is a newer OOo port than the binary?

[Nicolas Blais]

> Okay, I Understand.
>
> But, it is not good, to put rel-candidates into the stable tree.
> Maybe another port subtree is the solution? At least your explanation
> sounds like..
>
> Maybe
>
> editors/openoffice.org-2.0-rc OR
> editors/openoffice.org-2.0-milestones
>
> Please anderstand also my point of view: I never can do "portupgrade
> -a", because of the "outdated" OOo-Port (I do not like to kompile
> OOo. It takes to much time, and several times it has failed).
>
> Heino

I don't like compiling OO either :)

Have you tried the -x option ? You can portupgrade everything but exclude 
openoffice like so:

portupgrade -avx openoffice

Nicolas.

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