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Guix did a full source bootstrap first, credit where well due, but it does not apply to their whole tree. E.g haskell is bootstrapped with a binary, qemu includ
by lrvick 5mo ago
Guix did a full source bootstrap first, credit where well due, but it does not apply to their whole tree. E.g haskell is bootstrapped with a binary, qemu includes binary firmware blobs, etc.
Guix is not fully bootstrapped or reproducible.
To your point though, the incomplete efforts of many other distros absolutely accelerated us.
- deknos 5mo agothat depends though, which channel you choose. And their efforts for stage0 and such also increased the possibility for all. Yay for Free software and Opensource! we all benefit! :)