diff --git a/sys-process/btop/Manifest b/sys-process/btop/Manifest
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+DIST btop-1.0.1.tar.gz 921264 BLAKE2B a272e9479dbffe18e0000632f9697c5ed59707503c836eafd36f62db55787e56ad4d79a81e699a1821d3630052373daf4568a7096e31385075b1f0db00ed40b4 SHA512 dcbd2daeebf7238e3724f75d1be5a5bc1abf554a938b3a35179d65523098cd74df38cf5d26eea58532ad412805302c6681045ec92df4a860a12c91d7280202ce
diff --git a/sys-process/btop/btop-1.0.1.ebuild b/sys-process/btop/btop-1.0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="A monitor of resources"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/aristocratos/btop"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=sys-devel/gcc-10
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	# btop installs README.md to /usr/share/btop by default
+	sed -i 's/^.*cp -p README.md.*$//' Makefile
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# Disable btop optimization flags, since we have our flags in CXXFLAGS
+	emake \
+		OPTFLAGS=""
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake \
+		PREFIX="${EPREFIX}/usr" \
+		DESTDIR="${D}" \
+		install
+
+	dodoc README.md CHANGELOG.md
+}
diff --git a/sys-process/btop/metadata.xml b/sys-process/btop/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>nex+b-g-o@nexadn.de</email>
+		<name>Adrian Schollmeyer</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>