diff --git a/dev-util/shadowman/shadowman-9999.ebuild b/dev-util/shadowman/shadowman-9999.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/mgorny/shadowman"
-inherit git-r3
-
-DESCRIPTION="Unified compiler shadow link directory updater"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mgorny/shadowman"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS=""
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="app-admin/eselect"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-src_install() {
-	# tool modules are split into their respective packages
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install \
-		INSTALL_MODULES_TOOL=""
-	keepdir /usr/share/shadowman/tools
-}