I mean deprecation doesn't mean it has to be removed immediately.
There will be some time before it is actually removed. We can even push
it to Guile 4.
Given a long timeline i doubt older programs would be advised to be used
or even work with recent guile. Given the rest of the cleaning
discussion and any other breaking changes that is.
Arne's wisdom still holds. "Breaking" is bad, and "cleaning" does not
guarantee keeping clean.
If the (guile ...) names are adopted, I suggest you keep the existing
(ice-9 ...) libraries indefinitely but no longer advertise them in the
manual.
BTW,
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Concept-Index.html
only has one mention of ice-9.
