diff --git a/sci-libs/plasma/Manifest b/sci-libs/plasma/Manifest
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+DIST plasma-21.8.29.tar.gz 596586 BLAKE2B c41e8b86827ec0137b35bd882ae09acfdcf81f75dc45c17be79b2f08f237ce9c82c58fb4815f1c7b285df7ce9f7e3308d1fb7d0b5596dbb72d2583ccae9af8fd SHA512 4f56d4e31c2fdf52d4504856d3fb54f49f5f1b946e477a0125b24eabf11737064e81ba4fd87e6c3d480259e8a97bdcf13d7db2925a55e4a5ef595b2fbb94d684
diff --git a/sci-libs/plasma/metadata.xml b/sci-libs/plasma/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://bitbucket.org/icl/plasma/issues</bugs-to>
+        <remote-id type="bitbucket">icl/plasma</remote-id>
+        <remote-id type="github">NLAFET/plasma</remote-id>
+    </upstream>
+    <longdescription lang="en">PLASMA is a software package for solving problems in dense linear algebra using OpenMP. PLASMA provides implementations of state-of-the-art algorithms using cutting-edge task scheduling techniques. PLASMA currently offers a collection of routines for solving linear systems of equations, least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems.</longdescription>
+    <!--<use><flag name="magma">Use magma as dependency</flag></use>-->
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sci-libs/plasma/plasma-21.8.29.ebuild b/sci-libs/plasma/plasma-21.8.29.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit cmake edo python-any-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="PLASMA parallel library for dense linear algebra"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://bitbucket.org/icl/plasma
+	https://github.com/NLAFET/plasma
+"
+SRC_URI="https://bitbucket.org/icl/plasma/downloads/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+# TODO: magma (requires cuda)
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/lua
+	virtual/blas
+	virtual/cblas
+	virtual/lapack
+	virtual/lapacke
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+DOCS=( README.md ChangeLog )
+
+src_prepare() {
+#	edo rm -r tools/lua*
+	edo sed -e "s|DESTINATION lib|DESTINATION $(get_libdir)|g" -i CMakeLists.txt
+	cmake_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DPLASMA_DETECT_LUA=ON
+		-DPLASMA_DETECT_MAGMA=OFF
+	)
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cmake_src_install
+	einstalldocs
+}