diff --git a/sys-libs/libnvme/Manifest b/sys-libs/libnvme/Manifest
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index 0000000000000..bc7a3027d3949
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+++ b/sys-libs/libnvme/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST libnvme-1.0.tar.gz 323956 BLAKE2B 66d8c6b32be1f07306ddfad336e11c2c34e64223344af6d8995ca691658f819c667a96ffb567d1315c19cb5e34dfc217bf6e00bcee1d86d616395d0d58718683 SHA512 119c5f0f6eef47c8922d7c40ff8b6374e211364d8d2df64f1fcc72f2f83216fd81d55e7667d126ab6304128bb58f8e491f845b5a247f64b639a1654a57580f7c
diff --git a/sys-libs/libnvme/libnvme-1.0.ebuild b/sys-libs/libnvme/libnvme-1.0.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..2a0a33ef77015
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+++ b/sys-libs/libnvme/libnvme-1.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="C Library for NVM Express on Linux"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/linux-nvme/libnvme"
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="+json ssl +uuid"
+
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/linux-nvme/libnvme/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+DEPEND="
+	json? ( dev-libs/json-c:= )
+	ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-1.1:= )
+	uuid? ( sys-apps/util-linux:= )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		-Dpython=false
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}
diff --git a/sys-libs/libnvme/metadata.xml b/sys-libs/libnvme/metadata.xml
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+++ b/sys-libs/libnvme/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>zmedico@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Zac Medico</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="json">Support JSON output via <pkg>dev-libs/json-c</pkg></flag>
+		<flag name="uuid">UUID support via <pkg>sys-apps/util-linux</pkg></flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>