diff --git a/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/Manifest b/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/Manifest
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+DIST wpebackend-fdo-1.4.0.tar.xz 30204 BLAKE2B dda32e0408a8fd98dc1d03c4606e20fb219fe722aef24360e31cd62027601a4795dbdbf026925e284e6b87f223e6e79824e8e6bab181b7bbf42a9db0664358dc SHA512 f94167b13345adfda15312b16e5de04910f812c7481f7e3c8a00163ce8387be22373867b51b2c5cb424e62de877c1aaa48592aac85ec9cc03c969c7e83185660
diff --git a/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/metadata.xml b/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/wpebackend-fdo-1.4.0.ebuild b/gui-libs/wpebackend-fdo/wpebackend-fdo-1.4.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit cmake-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="WPE backend designed for Linux desktop systems"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wpewebkit.org/"
+SRC_URI="https://wpewebkit.org/releases/${P}.tar.xz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+SLOT="1.0"
+IUSE=""
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	media-libs/mesa[egl]
+	dev-libs/glib:2
+	>=dev-libs/wayland-1.10
+	gui-libs/libwpe:1.0
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DBUILD_DOCS=OFF # hotdoc not packaged
+	)
+
+	cmake-utils_src_configure
+}