Openoffice port missing?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
>>Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Does anyone know why was the openoffice.org port removed from 
>>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/Latest? 
>>>Before a week or so it was there.
> 
> 
> If it's not there, then whichever version you are looking for was not
> buildable on the last package build.  oo.o is "fragile" in the sense
> that it depends on many ports, the failure of any of which will
> prevent it from building.  Recently that has been due to java
> upheaval.  It looks like the current build may succeed, so check back
> in a few days.
> 
> 
>>It is in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/All
>>
>>This port has a "NO_LATEST_LINK" flag set.
>>
>>(I myself find the NO_LATEST_LINK also to be a bit of an inconvenience - 
>>perhaps there is a better way to resolve the issue which it is trying to 
>>resolve, viz duplicate latest links.)
> 
> 
> Naturally there is, viz LATEST_LINK.

What I was meaning to say was "why don't people use LATEST_LINK instead 
of NO_LATEST_LINK?"  Well maybe that is a question for the openoffice 
porters.  But maybe a question for ports - why don't we get rid of the 
NO_LATEST_LINK option, thus forcing people to use LATEST_LINK?