installing old version

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 15:56, Lenore Horner wrote:

> installing old version
>
>
> I did something really stupid - uninstalled a system that worked  
> just because it seemed to be hopelessly cluttered with ports that  
> had been installed by mistake or should no longer exist (mesa,  
> gwenhwyfar, xrender).  (About 20% of my installed ports had no  
> dependents which seemed screwy.)

It's not necessarily screwy. It can occur during the normal use of  
MacPorts. You can use the port_cutleaves tool (see the port of the  
same name) to help you discover what ports you may no longer need,  
and to uninstall them.

> Anyhow, the most recent Pango does not compile (at least not with  
> +no_static +no_x11 -x11 +quartz in /opt/local/etc/macports/ 
> variants.conf ). Is there any way to force the installation of an  
> older version?
>

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort