From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 14: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7976814F94; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990329220334.TWUW6529.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:03:34 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990329140310.00a32df0@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:03:10 -0800 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990329103927.008fa890@mail.bfm.org> References: <36FF0B8E.D1B051B1@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:39 AM 3/29/99 -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >One strange thing though: I did that (installing KDE via >/stand/sysinstall), and it kept complaining that X was not installed even >though it was, just not from the ports (Pressing enter each time kept it >moving along, just that I had to press it some 100 times or so). I have >since reinstalled X from the ports. But I wonder if there is a way to >register software somehow, so ports knows it already is installed for >future reference. mkdir /var/db/pkg XFree86-3.3.3.1 __________________________________________ Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein __________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message