diff --git a/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/Manifest b/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/Manifest
index 120b07da8a34a..3d29b4ce30cef 100644
--- a/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/Manifest
+++ b/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST shared-mime-info-1.4.tar.xz 537916 SHA256 bbc0bd023f497dfd75e1ca73441cbbb5a63617d9e14f2790b868361cc055b5b1 SHA512 ac643a5360c1e4811b2df8e3c52434e5ee48f8e62a01ede3fb0895d30721b58b5b26c0edc43f779576ff899bd1a8b181699a08dbbb1e956394555f6ca983a582 WHIRLPOOL 32cb301cd54140b83af8c321b7ebc571b87b07ca86bfc68e6760e4dd3551188a092a96087042b13f1278c11cd88c261879fc816d0c2efcbee473211d929194bf
+DIST shared-mime-info-1.5.tar.xz 559040 SHA256 d6412840eb265bf36e61fd7b6fc6bea21b0f58cb22bed16f2ccccdd54bea4180 SHA512 8a97c8fa5a60eede056a42c36d9f8d015bf2788feca4630397ef71ba2cfe29ad469fb1669c368674edd4661af6b2f6823377cc27525f44c61788533c0c28e22a WHIRLPOOL 157dfc0f3a6aacde8ca734217f9a3b2e8baa9bc0254a2024716136215624e642b25537216f79c9a95ba55ee70dff872eb746cb3e0e07cb31a8a190d7d5bf6b7b
diff --git a/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-1.5.ebuild b/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-1.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e192913e14a6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-misc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-1.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+inherit eutils fdo-mime
+
+DESCRIPTION="The Shared MIME-info Database specification"
+HOMEPAGE="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
+SRC_URI="http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-aix ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~x64-freebsd ~x86-freebsd ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+IUSE="test"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2
+	dev-libs/libxml2"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-util/intltool
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+DOCS=( ChangeLog HACKING NEWS README )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	export ac_cv_func_fdatasync=no #487504
+
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable test default-make-check) \
+		--disable-update-mimedb
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# FIXME: 0.91 fails with -j9 every second time like:
+	# update_mime_database-update-mime-database.o: file not recognized: File truncated
+	# collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
+	emake -j1
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	# in prefix, install an env.d entry such that prefix patch is used/added
+	if use prefix; then
+		echo "XDG_DATA_DIRS=\"${EPREFIX}/usr/share\"" > "${T}"/50mimeinfo
+		doenvd "${T}"/50mimeinfo
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	use prefix && export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share
+	fdo-mime_mime_database_update
+}