rmpkg(main/guile18): in favour of guile 3.0 #28095
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We do not want to have multiple versions of the same package if it can be avoided. We already have guile 3.0, and no package at the moment depends on guile18, so we can remove it. Only reason to keep guile 1.8 around is for programs that do not support newer guile versions. A better solution is to fix those programs instead though.
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I approve of this, especially if you have checked the mirror download traffic for this package and already seen it's not getting frequent downloads.
Debian already removed their Guile 1.8 package many years ago.
While maintaining the guile 3 package, I considered removing guile18 before, but I couldn't find the git history of what it was necessary for in Termux, so I left it untouched because I wasn't sure if it was still needed or not.
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We do not want to have multiple versions of the same package if it can be avoided. We already have guile 3.0, and no package at the moment depends on guile18, so we can remove it.
Only reason to keep guile 1.8 around is for programs that do not support newer guile versions. A better solution is to fix those programs instead though.