Re: [gentoo-user] mount.cifs removal?

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:25 PM,  <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).
OK, I will try and see what happens.

Thanks.


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