Reader supplied reviews for Exherbo
Average rating
5.8 from 4 review(s)
Version: current
Rating: 4
Date: 2023-10-27
Votes: 1
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Compared to Gentoo, it is too bloated in many ways.
I think CAVE is superior to Portage, but I have no other reason to choose it. I have been using this system for a few days now and I still don't understand it.
I have read that a package management system called Paludis can be implemented in Gentoo, so if you are using Gentoo, you might want to try that before trying Exherbo.
I am going to use it for a while and see how it goes.
By the way, don't forget that I don't recommend this OS because it has a lot of troublesome errors such as UNWRITTEN etc.
So far, I give it a 4 out of 10.
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Version: current
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-07-30
Votes: 2
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in comparation to gentoo it is too bloated
if one choose minimal profile on gentoo to build system, there will be flags available for almost any option in source supported by original maintainer, gentoo devs make little changes to fit source into portage system.
While on exherbo, almost half options (use flags) will be hard enabled in source.
so, user have more freedom and configuration on gentoo than on exherbo. If somebodie doesnt like exherbo source, for sure he can make his repository and than configure packagesm but its not always easy to compile them later and install with cave.
exherbo is for users who doesnt mind to have bloated system for year or two with great learning curve until they really learn how to do it well.
Cave is better tha portage, but thats it. distribution is worst, repositories are bloated with hard enabled supports in source...
i give it 5/10
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Version: current
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-05-17
Votes: 10
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All in all: A solid source-based distribution with better infrastructure than (but not as much support or documentation as) Gentoo. Not well-suited to non-technical users, but technical ones will appreciate its configurability and repo federation. It's been my daily driver for five years.
I tend to judge a distro on its package management, since that's what all of them try to do. In that sense, Paludis strives to be "a better Portage"--its conceptual models are cleaner, the vocabulary was chosen more sensibly ("options" instead of "USE flags"), likely in retrospect. As a result, I've found its errors to generally be more comprehensible than Portage's at a first glance, even though it's documentation is much poorer (and nonexistent in some cases). There are many tips and tricks to using it capably, but that's beyond the scope of this review, unfortunately.
The project is tiny, and it cedes that other users need to help with packaging. To that end, there are numerous "unofficial" repositories with packages, and they're a first-class feature (unlike Gentoo's afterthought of "overlays"). If you're using something esoteric, chances are you might have to package as such yourself--but Paludis can also import "built" root images for you, which is especially handy for proprietary software.
Aside from that, some LFS knowledge would be handy, as this distro is certainly not turnkey. But it's one of a few that can support my whimsy (like non-systemd) and not _be_ LFS. If you have a fairly-performant computer and a few days to kill, try it.
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