Re: get rid of LOCALBASE

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

FYI, it came from the very start - back when X11 programs went to /usr/X11R6 (X11BASE), and the rest went to /usr/pkg (err, LOCALBASE - you can see where pkgsrc took its basis from). PREFIX was a pkgsrc abstraction sitting on top of those 2 and pointing to the correct place.

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 09:51, Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:

On 12/3/20 11:15 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since we had two recent occurrences where this bit developers, I'd
> like to globally replace: LOCALBASE with PREFIX.
>
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2020/12/03/msg024201.html
>
> Any comments?
>   Thomas
The purpose of LOCALBASE has never been quite clear to me and I'd
welcome the simplification.

     JB