diff --git a/dev-python/pytest-shutil/pytest-shutil-1.7.0-r2.ebuild b/dev-python/pytest-shutil/pytest-shutil-1.7.0-r2.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} pypy3 )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="A goodie-bag of unix shell and environment tools for py.test"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/man-group/pytest-plugins https://pypi.org/project/pytest-shutil/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x64-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/execnet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/path-py[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/termcolor[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-# block pytest plugins that will be broken by the upgrade
-RDEPEND+="
-	!<dev-python/pytest-virtualenv-1.7.0-r1[python_targets_python2_7(-)]
-"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	dev-python/setuptools-git[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests --install pytest
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	# remove unnecessary deps
-	# (contextlib2 is not used in py3)
-	sed -i -e '/path\.py/d' -e '/contextlib2/d' setup.py || die
-
-	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
-}