diff --git a/dev-R/generics/Manifest b/dev-R/generics/Manifest
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+DIST generics_0.1.0.tar.gz 117834 BLAKE2B f395913d84fae322995302bbe3a022733f7a4cfe4fababd907278303dc229a393aa9db248b3a57a2e1ea9b9a28a4caa4eab719127c42ed08e82f1c0f15a03d35 SHA512 fc96efafe114a66eee57aba48b7ab763204c1bb43570eeda742bca9e7486b47a0bf01bad87f2bf225a5c67f0abaf60c758afe7dada049b692ee864077334616b
diff --git a/dev-R/generics/generics-0.1.0.ebuild b/dev-R/generics/generics-0.1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+inherit R-packages-guru
+
+DESCRIPTION="Common S3 Generics not Provided by Base R Methods Related to Model Fitting"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+SRC_URI="http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${PN}_${PV}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="https://cran.r-project.org/package=generics"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/R-3.1"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND-}"
diff --git a/dev-R/generics/metadata.xml b/dev-R/generics/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>
+	<longdescription>
+		In order to reduce potential package dependencies and conflicts, generics provides a number of commonly used S3 generics.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>
+			https://github.com/r-lib/generics/issues
+		</bugs-to>
+		<doc lang="en">
+			https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/generics/generics.pdf
+		</doc>
+		<changelog>
+			https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/generics/news/news.html
+		</changelog>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>
+				Hadley Wickham
+			</name>
+			<email>
+				hadley@rstudio.com
+			</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="github">
+			r-lib/generics
+		</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>