Debarshi Ray wrote:

> The update to guile-2.x has been blocked for almost 1.5 years now:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678238
> 
> Long story short, existing programs are not ready to use guile-2.x, while
> newer versions of aiselriot (part of GNOME) need it. Creating a
> compat-guile or a guile2 package can be one way forward.

if these can be made parallel-installable, that's the way to go. 

As it appears the old one isn't going away any time soon, my opinion is to 
package the new one as guile2.  If that assumption about the expected 
lifetime of guile(1) is false, then compat-guile.

-- rex

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