Users do not need to build everything for themselves. They can download binaries from the build farm, just as if they were using a binary-based distro. The syst

Users do not need to build everything for themselves. They can download binaries from the build farm, just as if they were using a binary-based distro. The system is transparent: If a binary is available from an authorized remote machine, Guix will pull from it. If not, Guix will build it locally. To respond to security updates to core packages a lot faster, we are using a technique called 'grafting' that doesn't involve full rebuilds.