diff --git a/app-editors/atom-bin/Manifest b/app-editors/atom-bin/Manifest
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+DIST atom-bin-1.55.0.tar.gz 193419030 BLAKE2B 7c6dcb95947d10e024daa8bf160744ddb5c9885083dbfe3e9506810002a33d14599da3f27b776e185efc315cca312bc83b73c5c835361e8d1b545d050bbbaf6a SHA512 be8e80fa6f71735c05203cb95711614dd77fadf030a13c453a3921060f359c6ce2b1971c3be9c93db8accbc5151685f91b7dc77a074dbfc77f7d576a1158b211
diff --git a/app-editors/atom-bin/atom-bin-1.55.0-r1.ebuild b/app-editors/atom-bin/atom-bin-1.55.0-r1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit desktop xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="A hackable text editor for the 21st Century"
+HOMEPAGE="https://atom.io/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v${PV}/atom-amd64.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="alsa cups ssl test X"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/atom-${PV}-amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	app-accessibility/at-spi2-atk
+	app-accessibility/at-spi2-core
+	app-crypt/libsecret
+	dev-libs/atk
+	dev-libs/nss
+	alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib )
+	cups? ( net-print/cups )
+	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl )
+	X? (
+		x11-libs/cairo
+		x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf
+		x11-libs/gtk+
+		x11-libs/libX11
+		x11-libs/libxcb
+		x11-libs/libXcomposite
+		x11-libs/libXcursor
+		x11-libs/libXdamage
+		x11-libs/libXext
+		x11-libs/libXfixes
+		x11-libs/libXi
+		x11-libs/libxkbfile
+		x11-libs/libXrandr
+		x11-libs/libXrender
+		x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
+		x11-libs/libXtst
+		x11-libs/pango
+	)
+"
+
+QA_PREBUILT="/opt/atom/*"
+
+src_prepare(){
+	default
+
+	# Remove useless license files.
+	rm LICENSE LICENSES.chromium.html version
+}
+
+src_install(){
+	insinto /opt/"${PN}"
+	doins -r "${S}"/*
+	dosym ../../opt/"${PN}"/atom "${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/atom
+	fperms +x /opt/"${PN}"/atom
+	dosym ../../opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/apm "${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/apm
+	fperms +x /opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/apm
+	dosym ../../opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/node "${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/node
+	fperms +x /opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/node
+	dosym ../../opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/npm "${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/npm
+	fperms +x /opt/"${PN}"/resources/app/apm/bin/npm
+	make_desktop_entry /opt/atom/atom Atom atom Utility
+	doicon atom.png
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/atom-bin/metadata.xml b/app-editors/atom-bin/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>marco@scardovi.com</email>
+		<name>Marco Scardovi</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">atom/atom</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>