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Looking at the package list I can see:

python-sphinx and python2-sphinx

From this I conclude that python-sphinx is python3 version of sphinx right? Do you think that's sane (from user experience point of view) assuming that /usr/bin/python should point to python2? https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

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Yes, python-sphinx is the Python 3 version of Sphinx. Note that Guix does not conform to the FHS, and thus has no /usr directory.

Yet anyway as a python user I would expect to receive python2 version when installing python-sphinx.

In Fedora we have (most recent change in packaging guidelines):

Source rpm: python-foo which generates binary rpms: python2-foo and python3-foo where python2-foo has virtual provides for python-foo, once Python3 will become THE default python by the upstream merits we will change python-foo provides to python3-foo package.

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