diff --git a/media-sound/sndio/Manifest b/media-sound/sndio/Manifest
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+++ b/media-sound/sndio/Manifest
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+DIST sndio-1.6.0.tar.gz 125898 BLAKE2B 1aaee62642a9915d1d23291b7db62844713a0c9379d5c43086ecf3f3bcbfe62c83ef2da7a0342f8416ff51045969493fdf7aa0df3d5a1793e6e682b49a9c3d27 SHA512 32d668b5d50096cc2c5c29823c066475ceb06e394163d346697ceae853650cb407a77279c30f0fe703df894f19e8c818c1b8c0b84c17480cd54b25b6fc9fe3ce
diff --git a/media-sound/sndio/metadata.xml b/media-sound/sndio/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>contact@hacktivis.me</email>
+		<name>Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-sound/sndio/sndio-1.6.0.ebuild b/media-sound/sndio/sndio-1.6.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.sndio.org/"
+SRC_URI="http://www.sndio.org/${P}.tar.gz"
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0/7.0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="alsa"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libbsd
+	media-libs/alsa-lib
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	acct-user/sndiod
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	./configure \
+		--prefix=/usr \
+		--libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir) \
+		--privsep-user=${PN}d \
+		--enable-alsa \
+		--with-libbsd
+}