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From: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com>
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While this idea may seem good on the surface, it's really a very bad
idea (and I speak from experience) to hand-modify your package
database.  What you /should/ do instead is force the addition of the
packages.  `pkg_add -f <packageName>`


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:16:45 -0400 (EDT), doug@safeport.com
<doug@safeport.com> wrote:
> Neither XFree86 4.4 nor Xorg supports the video on my laptop while XFree86 4.3
> works.
> 
> I want to set up the package database to say XFree 4.4 is installed to see if I
> can install the latest packages. Does anyone know that this will not work? Also
> if I could get some pointer on how to modify the package db or where this may be
> documented
> 
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