diff --git a/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/Manifest b/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/Manifest
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+DIST cassandra-1.2.2.tgz 153553 SHA256 31db2a9ee2275e69ba0f7b0eec098f7a80cc6afa7c6a4eaa2d9d841ad040fb22 SHA512 cda256c8159be0b8f47ab46e23b9c24e3bbd9878679660fc956682d62221a289e262a394bfbff257a314d765ff22abd735a9624b2f8045219b8452b9bc8cb2b3 WHIRLPOOL ce79af578726a950e8b18eb571717a5e0b0983e0a4c619ab9e728eb29952c7782865bb3b91e7104ec2b4ff7b2273ca3e4b3e343f8ba03c8bfbb724e7e29e3899
diff --git a/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/metadata.xml b/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		DataStax PHP driver for Apache Cassandra or Scilla
+	</longdescription>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>geaaru@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Geaaru</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/pecl-cassandra-1.2.2.ebuild b/dev-php/pecl-cassandra/pecl-cassandra-1.2.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+USE_PHP="php7-0 php5-6"
+
+inherit php-ext-pecl-r3
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+DESCRIPTION="DataStax PHP Driver for Apache Cassandra"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/datastax/php-driver"
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-db/cpp-driver-2.4.3"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"