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+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual for ${PN#perl-}"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	|| ( =dev-lang/perl-5.44* ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
+	dev-lang/perl:=
+	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
+	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999
+"