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-neo-0.6.ebuild
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diff --git a/app-misc/neo/neo-9999.ebuild b/app-misc/neo/neo-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="cmatrix clone with 32-bit color and Unicode support"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/st3w/neo"
+
+if [ "$PV" = 9999 ]; then
+	inherit autotools git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/st3w/neo/"
+	KEYWORDS=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/st3w/neo/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+[ "$PV" = 9999 ] && BDEPEND="
+	sys-devel/autoconf
+	sys-devel/autoconf-archive
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	[ -f ./configure ] || eautoreconf || die 'autoreconf failed'
+}