revert #372

[edkerk]

Main improvements in this PR:

See https://github.com/SysBioChalmers/GECKO/pull/372#issuecomment-2133108156

Instructions on merging this PR:

• [x] This PR has develop as target branch, and will be resolved with a squash-merge.
• [ ] This PR has main as target branch, and will be resolved with a merge commit.

[github-actions[bot]]

This PR has been automatically tested with GH Actions. Here is the output of the tests:

 
GECKO installed, unknown version (cannot find version.txt).
Running geckoCoreFunctionTests
Done geckoCoreFunctionTests
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Note: In the case of multiple test runs, this post will be edited.