editing packages.config by hand [duplicate]

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i'm a .net/c# noob (long time java/servlet programmer)

i inherited an mvc 开发者_C百科3 project and have been working on it for about 2 months. just opened packages.config for the first time and see jquery stuff in it:

<package id="jQuery" version="1.5.1" />
<package id="jQuery.vsdoc" version="1.5.1" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.8.0" />
<package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.8.11" />

my project has never used NuGet for anything. i understand this file is used by NuGet.

if i were to simply edit this file and remove lines from it, would there be any bad side-affects.

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It is the file used by nuget to track what dependencies were installed.

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It's information about the NuGet packages that have been installed in the project via Visual Studio. It should not be edited manually.