diff --git a/dev-R/askpass/Manifest b/dev-R/askpass/Manifest
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+DIST askpass_1.1.tar.gz 5730 BLAKE2B 40f1c80bc1660c92295d71091d19bc9f61bec39a0438aea3e38787fe4d091a46cd97c506558ec918dca6f4911e54957f3ee1edefc7a1fbc52cc7c3cc84652bd5 SHA512 eac868a7bf63d5aa204889157acc4bd39ed0c358c824a376b5adbfd1125bc557d081b7c2717799ddf7ccda4e23b16854a2e68dbf1c8c54b0c5535511cad4da83
diff --git a/dev-R/askpass/askpass-1.1.ebuild b/dev-R/askpass/askpass-1.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit R-packages
+
+DESCRIPTION='Safe Password Entry for R, Git and SSH'
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE='MIT'
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-R/sys-2.1"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-R/askpass/metadata.xml b/dev-R/askpass/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<longdescription>
+		Safe Password Entry for R, Git, and SSH // Cross-platform
+		utilities for prompting the user for credentials or a
+		passphrase, for example to authenticate with a server or read a
+		protected key. Includes native programs for MacOS and Windows,
+		hence no 'tcltk' is required. Password entry can be invoked in
+		two different ways: directly from R via the askpass() function,
+		or indirectly as password-entry back-end for 'ssh-agent' or
+		'git-credential' via the SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS
+		environment variables. Thereby the user can be prompted for
+		credentials or a passphrase if needed when R calls out to git
+		or ssh.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>