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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:40:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r503801 - in head/graphics/exiftran: . files
Message-ID:  <alpine.LSU.2.21.1907150638210.4100@anthias.pfeifer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190630154730.GA21108@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201906090644.x596iCon058100@repo.freebsd.org> <20190610041555.GA98022@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LSU.2.21.1906301741020.6112@anthias.pfeifer.com> <20190630154730.GA21108@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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