This was discovered during work on the XD2GEN2 project. While Ximian has made no changes to this package, they do ship with the latest version (0.2.1) which is not in the portage tree yet. As far as I can tell, the ebuild doesn't require any modifications other than updating the SRC_URI.
nobody uses this stuff really
i agree that it is pretty useless :/ "So far at-poke is useless for the above, since it substantially fails to work in a predictable way, but its getting there." from the README .. the deps have changed quite a bit from 0.1.0. anyway, the new version in portage.