On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Marcel Partap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. > before going to bed, i quickly wanted to ask here - the place i saw fit for > the question which is 'is exherbo for me?' > I have read some of the stuff on the website, especially the faq point > saying it probably is not. Well if someone feels to answer this consider that > - i am running gentoo linux since three years - always on the bleeding edge ;) > - currently running git-sources, genkdesvn-scm and a bunch of local scm > ebuilds (via paludis) > - huge list of packages, several repos, mount points are a total mess > (symlinks all over > because i ran out of space on my 9GB root partition *long* ago ;) > - i do like touching sources or filing/fixing bugs in any software i need to > use > - my new ati card has arrived and as i am pretty fed up with nvidia taking > ages to make > their binary blob track kernel ABI changes, i want to put that in tomorrow. > - while the case is open, i want to rearrange my hard drives and migrate my > system to a > cleaned up 500GB disk. That needs to go fairly quick and i want to have all > the packages > available after the move. I'm willing to put some effort into it, but do not > have much time. > so eh, does anyone have advice, could i just set up a fresh exherbo > installation in a > chroot on the new disk and install all current packages in there with a > managable amount > of time? is exherbo even compatible to the main gentoo repo? could i perhaps > even transfer > binary packages for such monsters as gcc and openoffice? is the init system > usable yet? > any comments totally appreciated, good night ;) > marcel.
No, Exherbo is not for you. - We don't have all the packages you want (I believe we're still way below 1000 packages all together). - We're most certainly not compatible with Gentoo packages and it's easier to write packages from scratch than trying to migrate Gentoo packages most of the time. - Our initsystem is completely missing. - Our only user support consists of laughing at users and possibly banning them if they're too annoying. And finally.. - You're really going to regret it if you try to migrate binary packages from Gentoo to Exherbo as we handle most things differently - especially toolchain is handled quite differently. So please take the advice from our homepage and wait until we decide that Exherbo is ready for users. Regards, Bryan Østergaard _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
