There is a library available that makes it easier to code IRC bots. Not sure how usefull this would be in general but here is an ebuild for anyone interrested.
Created attachment 76093 [details] botnet-1.6.4.ebuild net-libs/botnet - sorry, typo in previous post :).
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*sigh*. Some people. Oh well, never did get round to completing my project anyway so no big loss. Thanks for at least trying to check it out (or in, depending on which way round you look at it).
Feel free to contribute more or even maintain your ebuilds in the gentoo user overlay project ( http://gentoo-sunrise.org/ ), contributions are always welcome :)