Since 2.5.4 no longer works, and development pretty much makes a new release every day, I think an mldonkey-cvs ebuild might be in order. I made one and it works great for me. Might want to include a pre/post install ewarn that this is a CVS ebuild and don't go complaining if it doesn't work. I'll attach things shortly
Created attachment 24962 [details] mldonkey-cvs-2.5.4.ebuild Thar she blows.
Now that the mldonkey people have taken my advice and starting building source tarballs for their releases this is more or less a moot point. Closing.