gnome compilation problems

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando Stefan Bruda :
> At 20:01 -0500 on 2007-10-24 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>  > 
>  > Nobody forces you to upgrade any port, or any other software on
>  > your machine, for that matter. You can choose to upgrade, or
>  > not. 
> 
> Yes it does: An automatic `port upgrade outdated' will upgrade
> everything.
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > If you find problems with new versions, please file tickets.
> 
> Of course, but in the meantime I would like to keep a usable
> installation.  If I have a test machine (which I don't) I would be
> more than happy to live on the edge and report bugs; however whenever
> I am upgrading my production machine I like to have things mostly
> working--the DE being one important piece, I like to have it working
> all the time.

Be happy then because when you upgrade a port, macports cleverly keeps
the previous version (as inactive ports), so you can roll back to the
version that was working so well for you and that you were forced to
upgrade by a dictatorial automatic port upgrade outdated.


Emmanuel