Many net-im, jabber related, ebuilds will be changed to reflect new directory schema introduced by net-im/jabber-base. This change need to be documented as location of user data will be changed, location of logs and pids some scripts depend on will be changed etc. This is workplace for document that will describe all these changes and will be eventually presented to GWN readers or will be linked from einfo from affected packages. Something similar was done when there was apache change, please see: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-upgrading.xml Ssl
I'm CC'ing the current maintainer for jabber-base. Once things are more concrete, we can work out something for the users. Humpback, what say?
I have had no response from the maintainer, marking this LATER
Reopening for proper closure.
Two years out of date, and jabber seems stable enough. Clooooosing.