Bug 588948

Summary:	net-fs/samba - standardize the smbclient and client USE flags
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	hololeap <hololeap>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's SAMBA Team <samba>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	minor	CC:	bkohler, hydrapolic
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description hololeap 2016-07-16 21:26:07 UTC

The renaming of the 'smbclient' USE flag to 'client' between net-fs/samba versions 3.* and 4.* is both confusing and unnecessary. Paludis in particular gets confused by the resulting dependency specs and requires a workround like the one seen in media-video/vlc/vlc-2.2.3.ebuild. I don't see why the USE flag names can't be standardized between the versions, chaging both to either 'client' or 'smbclient'. A few ebuilds will have to be tweaked but it shouldn't be too much work IMO.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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