Make the value of _PATH_LOCALBASE the base system was built with available to user-land programs, libraries and scripts
This sysctl variable could e.g. be used in the rc framework to adjust values in /etc/defaults/rc.conf to the LOCALBASE of the running system, in most cases removing the need to locally overwrite the default values.
Start-up scripts that have to consider port/package supplied data could also be adjusted to use this value.