diff --git a/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest b/net-misc/yt-dlp/Manifest
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@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST yt-dlp-2025.03.31.tar.gz 5918295 BLAKE2B 65027958db5084916c67c34d5e9f4794785e97a70d56658859c1a69c42e524aaba39429659d64b1d666d8792ae89ebc7742b2173c91933ddddbd8e8455487507 SHA512 d517cba7d05e643c4977d2ee4b29c820b6ada6652ae8dabd066eae9764df0d3360cbfdd60c567043d0582f33d9a48d33b0449478867bebd932fedb6fcca995c9
+DIST yt-dlp-2025.04.30.tar.gz 5947502 BLAKE2B 43ef73d9eecada8760615154ea964480e7eb67f16ba0645b28e934e491c2915a5d97b1b3038fc6e27853f0ff66cc0a8aa0b87f8949e046368e1d957ce73aac52 SHA512 730a6795a7666431db47c98903e5425179de6f2b8a2a49875cc67e695dc90204ca98584f21437739f9d690457c9bd2b5fbb83a9be53ae4ddfe34041d19632507
diff --git a/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.04.30.ebuild b/net-misc/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-2025.04.30.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=hatchling
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 pypy3_11 python3_{10..13} )
+inherit distutils-r1 optfeature shell-completion wrapper
+
+DESCRIPTION="youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
+
+LICENSE="Unlicense"
+SLOT="0"
+# note that yt-dlp bumps are typically done straight-to-stable (unless there
+# was major/breaking changes) given website changes breaks it on a whim
+KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/pycryptodome[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
+		# fails with FEATURES=network-sandbox
+		test/test_networking.py::TestHTTPRequestHandler::test_connect_timeout
+		# fails with FEATURES=distcc, bug #915614
+		test/test_networking.py::TestYoutubeDLNetworking::test_proxy\[None-expected2\]
+		# websockets tests break easily depending on dev-python/websockets
+		# version and, as far as I know, most users do not use/need it --
+		# thus being neither in RDEPEND nor optfeature (bug #940630,#950030)
+		test/test_websockets.py
+	)
+
+	epytest -m 'not download'
+}
+
+python_install_all() {
+	dodoc README.md Changelog.md supportedsites.md
+	doman yt-dlp.1
+
+	dobashcomp completions/bash/yt-dlp
+	dofishcomp completions/fish/yt-dlp.fish
+	dozshcomp completions/zsh/_yt-dlp
+
+	rm -r "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/yt_dlp || die
+
+	make_wrapper youtube-dl "yt-dlp --compat-options youtube-dl"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "various features (merging tracks, streamed content)" media-video/ffmpeg
+	has_version media-video/atomicparsley || # allow fallback but don't advertise
+		optfeature "embedding metadata thumbnails in MP4/M4A files" media-libs/mutagen
+	optfeature "decrypting cookies from Chromium-based browsers" dev-python/secretstorage
+
+	if [[ ! ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]]; then
+		elog 'A wrapper using "yt-dlp --compat-options youtube-dl" was installed'
+		elog 'as "youtube-dl". This is strictly for compatibility and it is'
+		elog 'recommended to use "yt-dlp" directly, it may be removed in the future.'
+	fi
+}