diff --git a/dev-python/svgelements/Manifest b/dev-python/svgelements/Manifest
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+DIST v1.9.0.gh.tar.gz 130668 BLAKE2B e1315f0e5136e5a784a69df853fd27737f3b4cfed7423126ab3e94fd50ccb5d747bd9661a9f2853970ed17e9ea185fe342762072aed16b213d39aa44bea369b0 SHA512 c0373373f8f43cadf0b374c89830b2ec4e1eda2fa4052d6d0f72139755dc40a3d15d8b10b2298b2fce15f1540628b9aad57b6449b249290c9e08eb1cb4cdef85
diff --git a/dev-python/svgelements/metadata.xml b/dev-python/svgelements/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM 'https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd'>
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>gasc@eurecom.fr</email>
+		<name>Gasc Henri</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">svgelements</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">meerk40t/svgelements</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/svgelements/svgelements-1.9.0.ebuild b/dev-python/svgelements/svgelements-1.9.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="SVG Parsing for Elements, Paths, and other SVG Objects."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/meerk40t/svgelements https://pypi.org/project/svgelements"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/meerk40t/svgelements/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> v${PV}.gh.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/scipy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+DEPEND="${BDEPEND}"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	mv "${S}/test" "${S}_tests"
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	cd "${T}" || die
+	epytest "${S}_tests"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog Some other packages could be installed to extend functionnality:
+	elog
+	elog - dev-python/scipy, to be more precise for arc lenght
+	elog - dev-python/pillow, to be able to load images
+	elog - dev-python/numpy, to do lightning fast linearization for Shapes
+}