On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:25 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Hi. Portage wants to remove mount.cifs as follows: > net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking > net-fs/samba-client-3.3.7). What is going on here and how can I keep > mount.cifs and keep samba up to date at the same time?
Starting with Samba 3.3 the ebuilds are split into samba-libs, samba-server and samba-client. I believe samba-client replaces the functionality of mount-cifs, so you should be able to unmerge mount-cifs and build samba with the client USE flag (which will pull in samba-client).