I haven't had to solve that problem in a long time, but I think if I were faced with that now I would use portmaster's -b option. (Assuming you are OK with using portmaster.)
This requires some advance planning, of course. You have to remember to keep around the previous package and its dependencies before you upgrade.
the thing that got me really thinking about it was my struggle with xorg 7.4. i wanted to run 7.2rc1 and 2, but xorg 7.4 was beating me up. my sound card didnt work with snd_hda in 7.1 so i was kind of stuck bc i needed everything to work. so i was thinking that i could have tried downgrading xorg to 7.3.
BUT i finally got xorg working properly so im a happy camper.
Why not just make deinstall in the latest version and make clean && make install in the earlier version?
Of your dependencies the latest versions will be kept, but I can't remember having any problems with that.
Maybe a static link to a new library file is needed.
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