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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby26 ruby27 ruby30 ruby31"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="Changelog.md README.md TODO"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="highline.gemspec"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="Highline is a high-level command-line IO library for ruby"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/JEG2/highline"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/JEG2/highline/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+IUSE=""
+LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2 Ruby )"
+SLOT="$(ver_cut 1)"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	# fix up gemspec file not to call git
+	sed -i -e 's/git ls-files -z/find * -print0/' highline.gemspec || die
+
+	# Avoid unneeded dependencies
+	sed -i -e '/\(bundler\|code_statistics\)/ s:^:#:' \
+		-e '/PackageTask/,/end/ s:^:#:' Rakefile || die
+	sed -i -e '/simplecov/ s:^:#:' test/test_helper.rb || die
+
+	# Remove almost empty doc directory to allow rdoc recipe to work
+	rm -rf doc || die
+}