diff --git a/x11-apps/spotlighter/spotlighter-0.1.ebuild b/x11-apps/spotlighter/spotlighter-0.1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=3
-
-SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/s/${PN}/${PN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-DESCRIPTION="Shows a movable and resizable spotlight on the screen"
-HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/No_homepage"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
-IUSE=""
-
-COMMON_DEPEND="sys-devel/gettext
-	x11-libs/gtk+:2"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	dev-util/intltool"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	dev-libs/atk
-	media-libs/fontconfig
-	>=media-libs/libpng-1.2
-	sci-libs/gsl"
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed"
-}