diff --git a/gui-wm/river/Manifest b/gui-wm/river/Manifest
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-DIST river-0.1.3.tar.gz 249131 BLAKE2B 9e018c85093be6b1c2e5a05f0a5858dceb820710178bd4fd556550f7573c7d982252264309bd2dfb1247f37e9cab625dce3b3c2fa5da2ad9c9b19bfac4c059ba SHA512 8dd8ad8b17fb1d9d65e413aaaa456fda89f8bedd580db247c3ffa8235a67712394182b3498a9c6eb3707cfc571c398bb5086cf09810e4a9438d26ea19f41f5a9
diff --git a/gui-wm/river/metadata.xml b/gui-wm/river/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>cara@devcara.com</email>
-		<name>Cara Salter</name>
-	</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/gui-wm/river/river-0.1.3.ebuild b/gui-wm/river/river-0.1.3.ebuild
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-# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DESCRIPTION="A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/riverwm/river"
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999 ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/riverwm/river"
-else
- 	SRC_URI="https://github.com/riverwm/river/releases/download/v${PV}/river-${PV}.tar.gz"
-fi
-
-PATCHES=()
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-DEPEND="x11-libs/libxkbcommon
-		dev-libs/libevdev
-		x11-libs/pixman
-		virtual/pkgconfig
-		app-text/scdoc
-		dev-libs/wayland
-		dev-libs/wayland-protocols
-		>gui-libs/wlroots-0.16"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="=dev-lang/zig-0.9.1-r3"
-
-src_install() {
-	zig build -Drelease-safe --prefix "${D}/usr" install
-
-	dodir /usr/share/examples/river
-
-	cp "${S}/example/init" "${D}/usr/share/examples/river/init"
-}