The loaders for ioncube can now be downloaded from their webiste with no password required: http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php This could mean we don't have to pre-download the tar.gz file when installing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
We have decided to drop Ioncube-Loaders for now, the versioning and architecture caos make it impossible to maintain reliably in Portage. The actual ebuild will remain in Portage until we delete it, along with the old-style PHP packages. There will not be a updated Ioncube-Loader ebuild for dev-lang/php. For anyone who needs it it's just a matter of downloading the appropriate package and cp'ing a file to a directory. Best regards, CHTEKK.
WONTFIX as requested by CHTEKK.