diff --git a/dev-python/grpcio/Manifest b/dev-python/grpcio/Manifest
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+DIST grpcio-1.16.0.tar.gz 14519470 BLAKE2B 872ef15a7994303ce7ac0a573e49c94260eb8480d8ee94e25471ec9395827fafd3f5e3bd6f4793eb15091827e6d780b8dd6d01f38eef85db80fb234a710f370b SHA512 37d5940f1543cebdabf2b1340a042f98e5f321c42d92d05c88631c0eae42d94d3fe86893a21704a22b70c1fbd70bf091c1af2b51cd5c1d316dd8f0a586fb0eb7
diff --git a/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.16.0.ebuild b/dev-python/grpcio/grpcio-1.16.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="High-performance RPC framework (python libraries)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://grpc.io"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN::1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2:0=[-bindist]
+	dev-python/cython[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	net-dns/c-ares:=
+	!<net-libs/grpc-1.16.0[python]
+	sys-libs/zlib:=
+	virtual/python-enum34[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	virtual/python-futures[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+python_compile() {
+	export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_CARES=1
+	export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=1
+	export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1
+	export GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON=1
+	distutils-r1_python_compile
+}
diff --git a/dev-python/grpcio/metadata.xml b/dev-python/grpcio/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="person">
+		<email>gyakovlev@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Georgy Yakovlev</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		High-performance RPC framework (python libraries)
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">grpc/grpc</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">grpcio</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>