Re: get rid of LOCALBASE

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

On 03.12.2020 22:11, Jason Bacon wrote:
> Under pkgsrc, help/directories.help seems to indicate the same logic as
> FreeBSD ports, but there does not appear to be an alternative to
> LOCALBASE underlying PREFIX, and PREFIX is not supposed to be overridden
> (not the case in FreeBSD ports, PREFIX is explicitly set in rare cases):
>
> # PREFIX
> #    This is the directory where the package should install its
> #    files. This is usually LOCALBASE.
> #
> #    Tags: read-only, system-defined, non-overridable, etc.
> #
> #    See also:
> #        LOCALBASE.
> #
>
> # LOCALBASE
> #    This is the directory where all packages are usually installed.
> #    It is set by the user, and packages must not modify it.
> #
>
> Which leaves the question of specifically when the two might actually
> differ.

There is a single package where they differ.  That package is
shells/standalone-tcsh, and it is excluded by all bulk builds exactly
because it overrides PREFIX to be "/".  No other package is allowed to
do this though.

If I remember correctly, I discussed this with Alistair somewhere
between 2005 and 2010, and he wanted to keep the package as-is.

> If there are current or planned uses where PREFIX != LOCALBASE, then
> probably we need to keep both.

1 current use, 0 planned uses (from my point of view).

Roland