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

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:59 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I'm not sure whether environment-modules only handles executables or if
> it also handles libraries, datafiles, etc, though.  So I don't know
> whether that's the best place for an environment-modules directory to
> live.  Ed, do you have a comment on whether this is a good or bad idea
> for use of environment-modules?

It handles anything you otherwise can handle. With a module you can
define all sorts of environment variables, such as PATH,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, MANPATH and so on.

Just as long as a program has been written to be relocatable you can put
it anywhere you like with environment-modules.
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