diff --git a/sci-ml/fastdownload/Manifest b/sci-ml/fastdownload/Manifest
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+DIST fastdownload-0.0.6.tar.gz 14453 BLAKE2B d200f84914df472b5c7bc33b67abd00bd99b9444c05ac7425740ef378aac069bd2a7eeea5e1eddab16b06c7cb166d9a7fad9933b8bd278b31ccc0be9a71cb8c0 SHA512 2cdc106f97759c22c41723c92d497c8b38b629ad3f9dcb5bdb71d013301e84d5a31b6a101d740204fe8224b1a05bf1c35e2a1f453a3f9a069f4bb2def0490685
diff --git a/sci-ml/fastdownload/fastdownload-0.0.6.ebuild b/sci-ml/fastdownload/fastdownload-0.0.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="Easily download, verify, and extract archives"
+HOMEPAGE="https://fastdownload.fast.ai/"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	sci-ml/fastcore[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	sci-ml/fastprogress[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
diff --git a/sci-ml/fastdownload/metadata.xml b/sci-ml/fastdownload/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>tupone@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Alfredo Tupone</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">fastdownload</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="github">fastai/fastdownload</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>