Efraim Flashner writes:
> I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > 'guix package -A ^python2- | wc -l' gave me 737 > the number of leaf python2 packages I found was 222. > > This is only a first round; I didn't check to see if we were to remove > these packages how many more leaf python2 packages we would have. There are a few leaf packages that are being used to generate the python3 equivalent. So, maybe we should make a list of leaf packages that are otherwise safe to be dismissed. Also, what is the status of somebody deciding to move a lot of these to a channel?