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-# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-inherit autotools eutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="An ncurses based app to show a scrolling screen from the Matrix"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.asty.org/cmatrix"
-SRC_URI="http://www.asty.org/${PN}/dist/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 hppa ppc ~ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE="X"
-
-DEPEND="X? ( x11-apps/mkfontdir )
-	sys-libs/ncurses"
-
-src_unpack() {
-	unpack ${A}
-	# patch Makefile.am to make sure the fonts installations don't violate the
-	# sandbox.
-	cd "${S}"
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gentoo.patch
-	if use X ; then
-		epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-fontdir.patch
-	fi
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dodir /usr/share/consolefonts || die 'dodir failed'
-	dodir /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts || die 'dodir failed'
-	if use X;then
-	   dodir /usr/share/fonts/misc || die 'dodir failed'
-	fi
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die 'emake install failed'
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if use X; then
-		if [ -d "${ROOT}"usr/share/fonts/misc ] ; then
-			einfo ">>> Running mkfontdir on ${ROOT}usr/share/fonts/misc"
-			mkfontdir "${ROOT}"usr/share/fonts/misc || die 'mkfontdir failed'
-		fi
-	fi
-}