[lrvick]

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]

that 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! :)