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Dunno. Only know about these guys.

They cleaned up the website, the previous version was even more clear about why you weren't wanted.

Why not try Exherbo?

OK, I Want to Try Exherbo

No you don't.

Yes I Do

OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works. Exherbo isn't in a fit state for users. We might get there one day, but it's not a priority. Right now, all we care about is getting it into a fit state for a small number of developers.

OK, I Want to Try Exherbo

No you don't.

Yes I Do

OK, maybe you do, but we don't particularly want you to try it because we don't want to deal with you whining when you find that absolutely nothing works.

I've actually bothered to read their package format specification, and from what I understand it's just Gentoo's ebuild format (i.e. a bash script with some variables and some functions) with the worst parts fixed. Certainly seems a lot more sane to me, you can just give it a file containing the url to a source tarball and its default action is to do the configure/make/install that 99% of gentoo ebuilds have to explicitly state. If you don't like it, just write ebuilds instead - their package manager handles them transparently.

If this ever goes anywhere I'll almost certainly be dumping gentoo. It's become a joke in the last 2 years or so and is becoming increasingly broken.
You can't blame it on being a bleeding-edge source distro, because they're lagging months behind other distros in a lot of places. It's just plain stupidity and laziness. Most of the developers are too busy pretending to be politicians to do the right thing (hint: fuck off), which is making the ones who actually do anything useful leave instead.

From the "Planet" page http://planet.exherbo.org/ on the website:

First of all, Exherbo was announced because some elements of it will be discussed at an upcoming conference. Rather than having a blank page and let people start various rumors it seemed wise to at least let people know what was going on.
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Unfortunately Slashdot picked up the announcement because some tard decided it would be a great idea to submit it to them. We did not do that ourselves because, as we state on the website, we have no need for users at the moment and exherbo won't fulfill users demands for the foreseeable future.

So, you've all had lots of fun, criticising people who were quietly going about having their fun. And your point was ... ?

First of all, Exherbo was announced because some elements of it will be discussed at an upcoming conference. [...] it seemed wise to at least let people know what was going on [...] Unfortunately Slashdot picked up the announcement because some tard decided it would be a great idea to submit it to them. We did not do that ourselves

I guess you can get at least some of the information you're searching here: Description of exheres packager

So far as I can see, the package format is just a massively improved version of ebuilds. It's not like it's a completely new format, just the next logical leap forward from ebuilds.