there's a forking server that is included in bitlbee called bitlbeed for those people who don't want to run xinetd called bitlbeed. it is in the utils directory. the attach patch compiles this and installs it in /usr/bin also, there are a couple minor fixes such as: - adding IUSE - die's if make or install fails - splitting chown's to pkg_postinst because they'll break if FEATURES="userpriv".
Created attachment 10866 [details, diff] bitlbee-0.73-bitlbeed.patch i'd rather you commit it because you seem to maintaining it. but it should work fine.
Thanks for the fixes, they've been commited as bitlbee-0.73-r1.