diff --git a/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/Manifest b/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/Manifest
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+DIST mkmf-lite-0.5.2.gem 20480 BLAKE2B 5052f31a18bbd32c526c34ad3d5ddbd70721ea3cfd2e88039012329f6a61d23253977c40ccf3969e53f2e05805bb899bc6b8df0324b42f86ca207e59b72639c9 SHA512 d37ba56cdc8f069ebfddf581c0f229afc113f97c43485512cab32846d9c41324357471f56dfe0a36bc49483502fab6d2b8af0bfad783f92e76056f7738b4d3b8
diff --git a/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/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>robbat2@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Robin H. Johnson</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">djberg96/mkmf-lite</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/mkmf-lite-0.5.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/mkmf-lite/mkmf-lite-0.5.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby27 ruby30 ruby31 ruby32"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC=""
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGES.md README.md"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec3"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="light version of the the mkmf library designed for use as a library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/djberg96/mkmf-lite"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+ruby_add_rdepend ">=dev-ruby/ptools-1.4 <dev-ruby/ptools-2.0"