diff --git a/app-editors/lapce/lapce-9999.ebuild b/app-editors/lapce/lapce-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cargo desktop git-r3 xdg-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust "
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lapce/lapce"
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/lapce/lapce.git"
+
+LICENSE="( Apache-2.0 ( MIT 0BSD ) Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions Artistic-2 BSD BSD-2 Boost-1.0 CC0-1.0 CeCILL-2 GPL-2 ISC MIT MIT ) MPL-2.0 Unicode-DFS-2016 Unlicense ZLIB"
+SLOT="0"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	git-r3_src_unpack
+	git-r3_fetch $EGIT_REPO_URI v0.2.2
+	git-r3_checkout
+	cargo_live_src_unpack
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	cargo_src_configure --frozen
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cargo_src_install
+	domenu extra/linux/dev.lapce.lapce.desktop
+	newicon extra/images/logo.png dev.lapce.lapce.png
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_desktop_database_update
+}
diff --git a/app-editors/lapce/metadata.xml b/app-editors/lapce/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>pascal.jaeger@leimstift.de</email>
+		<name>Pascal Jaeger</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">lapce/lapce</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>