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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> I know of no situation where guile cannot find its own stuff and the
> user/administrator is not to blame for incompetence and usage of
> hopelessly antiquated software. But I do not know everything and I am
> willing to learn :-)
>
> In any case, as far as I can tell, the guile-guessing stuff is
> entirely superfluous and does much more harm than good. I only figure
> out ways to go on using it because you somehow were convinced that
> application should second guess the administrator, the library
> developpers and the user.

I am willing to try suppressing the guile-guessing for a while and
see whether we get any complaints. However, we do need a way to
check whether guile has been well installed on the system.
I may look whether 'guile' is in the path, but I am not sure that
this is sufficient.