diff --git a/dev-tex/minted/Manifest b/dev-tex/minted/Manifest
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+DIST minted-2.6.tar.gz 891134 BLAKE2B b8f1686adeb138c61c232502b10aa420f1054180c5a460e9e5058d40435e13d336c15a044202923bd1acd7b62a7b780d95c62cf1a589181c90b9058712479c43 SHA512 6fb28485fca7238053ad177ee5579c27740e72b8753c6dcaa59afe20bc97d7e81ec20d189e97522445b6435f17cef1f8326aaa41c154bf21f59519c9abf10485
diff --git a/dev-tex/minted/metadata.xml b/dev-tex/minted/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="project">
+    <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription>
+    minted is a LaTeX package that facilitates expressive syntax highlighting
+    using the Pygments library. The package also provides options to customize
+    the highlighted source code output using fancyvrb.
+  </longdescription>
+  <stabilize-allarches />
+  <upstream>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/gpoore/minted/issues/</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">gpoore/minted</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-tex/minted/minted-2.6.ebuild b/dev-tex/minted/minted-2.6.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit latex-package
+
+DESCRIPTION="LaTeX package for source code syntax highlighting"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/gpoore/minted/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/gpoore/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+	-> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${P}/source
+
+SLOT="0"
+LICENSE="|| ( BSD LPPL-1.3 )"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="doc"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pygments
+	dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra
+"
+
+DOCS=( ../CHANGES.md ../README.md )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	rm "${S}"/${PN}.pdf || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	LATEX_DOC_ARGUMENTS="-shell-escape"
+
+	latex-package_src_install
+
+	use doc && latex-package_src_doinstall pdf
+}