diff --git a/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/Manifest b/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/Manifest
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+DIST matlab2tikz-1.1.0.tar.gz 178123 BLAKE2B 6cbc85863f5ca0e1868995b80af82ee92775d2d147049efd3774a8536d9c542f75006b742226fd50852ffe58fc79c83f6d2e215e99ba04eef0b0c0078034a1f6 SHA512 be007d294947841adb322ddf311bab9f3e151e776d9314978a2d32effe4d236591c979eb7ba1410231a1b8618c12148a90f10530a9273905561e7d7caf9de280
diff --git a/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz-1.1.0.ebuild b/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz-1.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit optfeature
+
+DESCRIPTION="convert native MATLAB(R) figures to TikZ/Pgfplots"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND=">=sci-mathematics/octave-4.0.0"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_install() {
+	dodoc README.md CHANGELOG.md
+	export pkgpath="/usr/share/octave/site/m/${PN}"
+	insinto "${pkgpath}"
+	doins -r src/*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# TODO: is there a way to do this automatically for all users?
+	einfo "Run addpath('${pkgpath}'); inside octave to add this package to the octave path"
+	optfeature "to build the generated files" dev-texlive/texlive-pictures dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra
+}
diff --git a/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/matlab2tikz/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz/issues</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>