diff --git a/net-libs/dpdk/Manifest b/net-libs/dpdk/Manifest
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+DIST dpdk-21.11.tar.xz 15102516 BLAKE2B e82fb03242b74e458810ee5e0d21feaf5d6d781b81b8dc5c2a2ab977bac202290dadc8734ea13993bb1cb1df4b5c4d770df574052a384b590ac798d19c370c59 SHA512 843282023c2f77a9b8af393d50c6dde54f09d490cd6f4a99f03d4df5df13a7d963aa86885fdf64e13f9da71e01c881d1f301dd093574a32cddd84f4b1fb58fd5
diff --git a/net-libs/dpdk/dpdk-21.11.ebuild b/net-libs/dpdk/dpdk-21.11.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+inherit python-single-r1 meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Data Plane Development Kit libraries for fast userspace networking"
+HOMEPAGE="https://dpdk.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="test"
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+# tests require rte_kni module to be loaded
+# and also needs network and /dev access
+# and need to be run as root
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	~sys-kernel/rte_kni-kmod-${PV}
+	app-crypt/intel-ipsec-mb
+	dev-libs/elfutils
+	dev-libs/isa-l
+	dev-libs/jansson
+	dev-libs/libbpf
+	dev-libs/libbsd
+	dev-libs/openssl
+	net-libs/libmnl
+	net-libs/libpcap
+	sys-apps/dtc
+	sys-cluster/rdma-core
+	sys-process/numactl
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-lang/nasm
+	test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/pyelftools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	') )
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		-Denable_kmods=false
+		-Dmachine=default
+		-Dplatform=generic
+		$(meson_use test tests)
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+	python_setup
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+	local pyfiles=( "${ED}/usr/bin/*.py" )
+	for pyfile in "${pyfiles[@]}"; do
+		python_fix_shebang "${pyfile}"
+	done
+}
diff --git a/net-libs/dpdk/metadata.xml b/net-libs/dpdk/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>gentoo@aisha.cc</email>
+		<name>Aisha Tammy</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>