Hi, I have samba4 installed & working fine. As I plan to share some gvfs mounted partition over samba, I activated samba use flag. Turns out to force samba3 to be emerged despite samba4 is installed & expected to suffice. Not sure this flag would match my expectation though, but this is out of scope I guess. Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.2.18 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.4, glibc-2.20-r2, 4.1.0-gentoo-XEN-VGA0-KMS x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.1.0-gentoo-XEN-VGA0-KMS-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-3217U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4540372 total, 2292472 free KiB Swap: 8184828 total, 8184828 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:45:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p33-r2 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.3_p33-r2::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.4.1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r4::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.2.2::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.16.4::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.4::gentoo, 4.9.2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.0::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.20-r2::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 java location: /var/lib/layman/java masters: gentoo priority: 0 sabayon location: /var/lib/layman/sabayon masters: gentoo priority: 1 gentoo-zh location: /var/lib/layman/gentoo-zh masters: gentoo priority: 2 mv location: /var/lib/layman/mv masters: gentoo priority: 3 proaudio location: /var/lib/layman/proaudio masters: gentoo priority: 4 bar location: /var/lib/layman/bar masters: gentoo priority: 5 booboo location: /var/lib/layman/booboo masters: gentoo priority: 6 x-portage location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core-avx-i -mcx16 -msahf -mno-movbe -mno-aes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 -mno-tbm -mavx -mno-avx2 -msse4.2 -msse4.1 -mno-lzcnt -mno-rtm -mno-hle -mno-rdrnd -mf16c -mfsgsbase -mno-rdseed -mno-prfchw -mno-adx -mfxsr -mxsave -mxsaveopt --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=3072 -mtune=core-avx-i -O2 -pipe -fgraphite -flto=4 -fopenmp -fgraphite-identity -floop-block -floop-interchange -floop-parallelize-all -floop-strip-mine -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-loop-linear -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core-avx-i -mcx16 -msahf -mno-movbe -mno-aes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 -mno-tbm -mavx -mno-avx2 -msse4.2 -msse4.1 -mno-lzcnt -mno-rtm -mno-hle -mno-rdrnd -mf16c -mfsgsbase -mno-rdseed -mno-prfchw -mno-adx -mfxsr -mxsave -mxsaveopt --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=3072 -mtune=core-avx-i -O2 -pipe -fgraphite -flto=4 -fopenmp -fgraphite-identity -floop-block -floop-interchange -floop-parallelize-all -floop-strip-mine -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-loop-linear -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n --misspell-suggestions=n --nospinner --with-bdeps=y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.linuxant.fr/distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://mirrors.stuhome.net/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.neolabs.kz/gentoo/pub http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br/gentoo/ http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.utf8" LDFLAGS="-O2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common -s -flto=4" MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=600" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X acl amd64 bluetooth bzip2 cli consolekit cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri egl fortran gdbm gles gles1 gles2 iconv jack mmx mmxext modules multilib multislot ncurses nls nptl openal openmp pam pcre policykit qt5 readline sdl session sse sse2 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 tcpd udev udisks unicode upower v4l vaapi vdpau xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="fr" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" SANE_BACKENDS="artec_eplus48u" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.4" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND
> I activated samba use flag Elaborate. That is, do you mean "I've set it on the package" or "I've set it globally" ?
It has activated at package level /etc/portage/packages.use/* Quite soon after opening bug, I realize there is very little chance this flag on the package would meet my expectation as equery g gvfs revealed that subsequent flag constraint on the samba packages was regarding client features only, so out of my scope. Could retrieve the initial bug report to request for cancellation, which I think it deserves. Thanks 4 ur attention, interest & support.