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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 git-r3 virtualx
+
+DESCRIPTION="Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.statsmodels.org/"
+SRC_URI=""
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels.git"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS=""
+IUSE="doc examples test"
+
+CDEPEND="
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pandas[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/patsy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-libs/scipy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+RDEPEND="${CDEPEND}
+	examples? ( dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+DEPEND="${CDEPEND}
+	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	doc? (
+		dev-python/ipykernel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/jupyter_client[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/nbconvert[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/nbformat[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/numpydoc[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/sphinx[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	test? ( dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# Prevent un-needed d'loading
+	sed -e "/sphinx.ext.intersphinx/d" -i docs/source/conf.py || die
+	export VARTEXFONTS="${T}"/fonts
+	export MPLCONFIGDIR="${T}"
+	export HOME="${T}"
+	echo "backend : Agg" > "${MPLCONFIGDIR}"/matplotlibrc || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_compile_all() {
+	if use doc; then
+		esetup.py build_sphinx -b html --build-dir=docs/build
+		HTML_DOCS=( docs/build/html/. )
+	fi
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	cd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
+	virtx nosetests -v || die
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	find "${S}" -name \*LICENSE.txt -delete
+	if use examples; then
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+		dodoc -r examples
+	fi
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "Plotting functionality" "dev-python/matplotlib"
+}