diff --git a/dev-php/PEAR-MDB2/PEAR-MDB2-2.5.0_beta5-r1.ebuild b/dev-php/PEAR-MDB2/PEAR-MDB2-2.5.0_beta5-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PEAR_PV=${PV/_beta/b}
-
-inherit php-pear-r2
-
-DESCRIPTION="Database Abstraction Layer"
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86"
-IUSE="mssql mysql mysqli oci8 oci8-instant-client postgres sqlite"
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.9.1"
-
-PDEPEND="mssql? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mssql-1.3.0_beta4 )
-	mysql? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mysql-1.5.0_beta4 )
-	mysqli? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_mysqli-1.5.0_beta4 )
-	oci8? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.5.0_beta4 )
-	oci8-instant-client? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.5.0_beta4 )
-	postgres? ( >=dev-php/PEAR-MDB2_Driver_pgsql-1.5.0_beta4 )"
-
-DOCS=( docs/CONTRIBUTORS docs/MAINTAINERS docs/README docs/STATUS docs/TODO )
-HTML_DOCS=( docs/datatypes.html)