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+# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit autotools cargo git-r3
+
+DESCRIPTION="Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) rendering library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibRsvg"
+
+RESTRICT="mirror"
+LICENSE="LGPL-2"
+SLOT="2"
+KEYWORDS=""
+
+IUSE="gtk-doc introspection tools"
+
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/GNOME/librsvg.git"
+#EGIT_BRANCH=""
+#EGIT_COMMIT=""
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.34.3:2
+	>=x11-libs/cairo-1.15.12
+	>=x11-libs/pango-1.36.3
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.1-r4:2
+	>=dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.8-r1
+	>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.30.7:2[introspection?]
+	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-0.10.8:= )
+	tools? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.10.0:3 )"
+
+DEPEND="dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common
+	dev-libs/vala-common
+	>=dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.13
+	>=virtual/pkgconfig-0-r1
+	gtk-doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.13 )"
+
+BDEPEND=">=virtual/rust-1.37.0
+	>=virtual/cargo-1.37.0"
+
+# >=gtk-doc-am-1.13, gobject-introspection-common, vala-common needed by eautoreconf
+# >=rust-1.37.0 needed for cargo vendoring to work
+
+src_unpack() {
+        if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+                git-r3_src_unpack
+                cargo_live_src_unpack
+        else
+                cargo_src_unpack
+        fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	local build_dir
+
+        if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]]; then
+	eautoreconf
+	fi
+
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myconf=()
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE=${S} \
+	./configure \
+	--prefix=/usr \
+	--disable-static \
+	--disable-tools \
+		$(use_enable gtk-doc) \
+		$(use_enable introspection) \
+		--enable-pixbuf-loader \
+		"${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	default
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+}