RedHat, Fedora future?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> 
>> It's not really a contradiction. The mozilla package is installed in 
>> /usr/lib/mozilla-*, but the users (and any of their shell scripts) are 
>> expected to execute /usr/bin/mozilla.
>>
>> Nothing in /usr/lib/mozilla-* is intended to be executed *directly* by 
>> users or scripts, and it should not appear in any user's PATH or MANPATH.
>>
> But /usr/lib/mozilla is being executed by users, and is only a link to 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-*.  But being in /usr/lib means it should not be 
> executed by users or shell scripts.  Confusion reigns.

/usr/lib/mozilla is not being *directly* executed by users.
That one adverb in the specification is crucial to why this makes sense.

The mozilla package is installed in a subdirectory of /usr/lib, as 
appropriate, but nothing in there is *directly* executed by users. 
/usr/bin/mozilla is created to be directly executed by users, and it 
then executes the appropriate things under /usr/lib/mozilla-*.