Well, today on the update of world, I got the great circular error of dependencies on net-fs/samba and net-fs/samba-libs. I am not sure what is going on upstream, but all of the kde 4.4.1 packages are really having problems with particular versions of samba, and the libs were fighting me on the versions as well. The only solution I had was to unmask =net-fs/samba-3.5.0 and pull that one manually (with –oneshot) and then pull =net-fs/samba-libs-3.4.5 (with –oneshot). After that, world updated with no problems. It was simple enough yet it was just a pain in the ass.
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In order to sort out what is really going on, step back and look at the bigger picture. Samba has undergone a lot of changes and samba devs are preparing to take samba to the next level by making it adhere more closely to the “protocols” usd natively by windows. For example, a samba 4 server can be not only recognized but fully trusted by windows server 2008. That’s a huge milestone. KDE requiring newer samba libs is a symptom that they too are following samba development and realize that things are a-changing and want to be known as being on the forefront of “let’s get this right.”