[Fedora-packaging] The role of %{_libexecdir} for using environment-modules

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:10 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
> Are these generic-named executables meant to be ran directly by the
> user 
> from a shell, or by another executable ? I assumed the latter in my 
> previous response.

Directly by the user. /usr/bin is out of the question due to

a) two major versions need to be able to coexist on a system with the
user having the liberty to choose among them

b) the binaries with general names may clash with other packages. Of
course this could be solved by renaming the executables in the spec
file, but this would break compatibility with upstream naming.

By using environment-modules the binaries themselves can be put
anywhere, since loading the module appends the path to find them.
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