Re: get rid of LOCALBASE

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

On 03.12.2020 18:56, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 06:15:23PM +0100, 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?
>
> ... the main difference remains that LOCALBASE
> is the user-settable variable and PREFIX is the infrastructure variable.

So what?

$ grep ^PREFIX *.mk
bsd.pkg.use.mk:PREFIX=                  ${LOCALBASE}

Since PREFIX is always the same as LOCALBASE, what's the point of having
two variables?

Roland