> I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why
> the older guile?

When a package supplies shared libraries, and the version of the shared
libraries changes in an update to the package, we keep the old package
around so that the old shared libraries are still available for any
other package that has linked to them.

  -- Dave


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