Re: get rid of LOCALBASE

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-12-04 at 16:46 GMT, Roland Illig wrote:

> 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.

And security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl </pedant>

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