diff --git a/app-misc/nonsense/files/nonsense.sh b/app-misc/nonsense/files/nonsense.sh
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+++ b/app-misc/nonsense/files/nonsense.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd /usr/share/nonsense
+exec perl /usr/share/nonsense/nonsense.pl "$@"
diff --git a/app-misc/nonsense/nonsense-0.7-r1.ebuild b/app-misc/nonsense/nonsense-0.7-r1.ebuild
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+++ b/app-misc/nonsense/nonsense-0.7-r1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+COMMIT="766d34590e1fc0edddb381ad16fab57f5d20d299"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Generates random text from datafiles and templates"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/aduial/nonsense
+	https://nonsense.sourceforge.net
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/aduial/nonsense/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${COMMIT}"
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+src_install() {
+	newbin "${FILESDIR}/nonsense.sh" nonsense
+	dodoc README.md CHANGELOG.md HOWTO.md
+	insinto /usr/share/nonsense
+	doins *.data *.html *.template nonsense.pl
+}