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On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> USES+=localbase is tycally used as a quick shortcut when you don't want to
> create a patch or mess with sed(1) to simply teach the port where to look
> for headers and libraries.

USES+=localbase is declarative, whereas creating a patch or messing
with sed(1) is much more specific, so from a maintenance perspective
the former is better.

Gerald