diff --git a/media-libs/phonon-vlc/phonon-vlc-0.12.0-r1.ebuild b/media-libs/phonon-vlc/phonon-vlc-0.12.0-r1.ebuild
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--- a/media-libs/phonon-vlc/phonon-vlc-0.12.0-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit cmake flag-o-matic kde.org multibuild
-
-DESCRIPTION="VLC backend for the Phonon multimedia library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://community.kde.org/Phonon"
-
-if [[ ${KDE_BUILD_TYPE} = release ]]; then
-	SRC_URI="mirror://kde/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-vlc/${PV}/phonon-backend-vlc-${PV}.tar.xz"
-	S="${WORKDIR}"/phonon-backend-vlc-${PV}
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ~loong ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+ || ( LGPL-2.1 LGPL-3 )"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="debug +qt5 qt6"
-REQUIRED_USE="|| ( qt5 qt6 )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=media-libs/phonon-4.12.0[qt5=,qt6=]
-	media-video/vlc:=[dbus,ogg,vorbis(+)]
-	qt5? (
-		dev-qt/qtcore:5
-		dev-qt/qtgui:5
-		dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
-	)
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,widgets] )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libpcre2:*
-	>=kde-frameworks/extra-cmake-modules-5.115.0:*
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	qt5? ( dev-qt/linguist-tools:5 )
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	MULTIBUILD_VARIANTS=( $(usev qt5) $(usev qt6) )
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	use debug || append-cppflags -DQT_NO_DEBUG
-
-	myconfigure() {
-		local mycmakeargs=(
-			-DQT_MAJOR_VERSION=${MULTIBUILD_VARIANT/qt/}
-			-DPHONON_BUILD_${MULTIBUILD_VARIANT^^}=ON
-			-DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON # ecm.eclass
-			-DKDE_INSTALL_DOCBUNDLEDIR="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/help" # ecm.eclass
-		)
-
-		if [[ ${MULTIBUILD_VARIANT} == qt6 ]]; then
-			mycmakeargs+=( -DPHONON_BUILD_QT5=OFF )
-		else
-			mycmakeargs+=( -DPHONON_BUILD_QT6=OFF )
-		fi
-
-		cmake_src_configure
-	}
-
-	multibuild_foreach_variant myconfigure
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	multibuild_foreach_variant cmake_src_compile
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	multibuild_foreach_variant cmake_src_install
-}