diff --git a/app-emacs/shell-split-string/Manifest b/app-emacs/shell-split-string/Manifest
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+DIST shell-split-string-0.1.tar.gz 3453 BLAKE2B 3907501aff6aeee821050980b0c65612e0b76bfc3dc98735d70b2bdabd4bd19d1225d4e5c85bc2910e795e53715d2dfc49b900c24f8ed6bb63751e8e25e41c89 SHA512 55b76a4664cecb1c894559efd8270a567868f1e758b55ea23480cfdb550009af0042d69302b7ac7b73eef54e01c01e9978bfb5421d2db3806a4054e3b7e8f893
diff --git a/app-emacs/shell-split-string/files/50shell-split-string-gentoo.el b/app-emacs/shell-split-string/files/50shell-split-string-gentoo.el
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+(add-to-list 'load-path "@SITELISP@")
diff --git a/app-emacs/shell-split-string/metadata.xml b/app-emacs/shell-split-string/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="project">
+    <email>gnu-emacs@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo GNU Emacs project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/10sr/shell-split-string-el/issues/</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">10sr/shell-split-string-el</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/app-emacs/shell-split-string/shell-split-string-0.1.ebuild b/app-emacs/shell-split-string/shell-split-string-0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit elisp
+
+DESCRIPTION="Split Strings Using Shell-Like Syntax"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/10sr/shell-split-string-el/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/10sr/${PN}-el/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${PN}-el-${PV}
+
+LICENSE="Unlicense"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+DOCS=( README.md )
+SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo.el"
+
+src_test() {
+	emake emacs=${EMACS} test
+}