On Wed, 05 May 2010 18:42:09 +0200, KH wrote:

> net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6)

mount.cifs is now provided by Samba.

> Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is "client" to a 
> server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More specific 
> (don't want to hear "moo"): Will I be able to mount a samba partition 
> without setting the samba use flag and after unmerging samba?

Samba is the server. The client tools used to be a separate package but
it now looks like you should emerge samba with USE="-server smbclient".


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