Created attachment 13027 [details] irssi-cvs ebuild
The gentoo developers are frowning on cvs ebuilds as far as putting them into the official portage tree. You might want to post the code at http://forums.gentoo.org for the world to use, but it probably will not be checked into portage.
*** Bug 14992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
added. thanks very much :) ive been using this since i took the bug and it seems reliable enough to use :)