With the latest stable version of lirc (0.8.7), there is a new option for the lircmd daemon ( --uinput ). This option simplifies the configuration of lircmd daemon. Actually, there is no configuration file to set this option. I have made a small modification in the init script to add this possibility.
Created attachment 261593 [details, diff] diff file of /etc/init.d/lircmd
Created attachment 261595 [details] /etc/conf.d/lircmd
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1988
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/c43a8b3cd8be202b594522496958762e6701109d