diff --git a/dev-python/cmd2/Manifest b/dev-python/cmd2/Manifest
index b4a28f2b2ab8a..b0bd216959148 100644
--- a/dev-python/cmd2/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/cmd2/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST cmd2-0.7.5.tar.gz 64939 BLAKE2B 57c8d3f4c7c94e8e2627fb5d2cf8c164da72c531808a53118f950ee79fcc2e0f431621ffbd74d275bf508c8646ded761d2d38c2b99570fdadbbaddf095e422a1 SHA512 14376ee283ac1c153ab0194a5dfa168eca36174783322ff72e190ed96b8c315518fef4f3ef09d77633851cb53b32f71fe380042ee3c0ef8ef2cbdfa16dabf704
+DIST cmd2-0.7.9.tar.gz 71298 BLAKE2B d1623e2d6a7ac66058b5a43a9688ba850962fa7b5659c3287a9aef9a7deb16338d71a2c07ef15ec72ee5e62aae0ce3cdf2f202d0d423040b734dee059f1d4876 SHA512 39086794ea57cdfdc7388aaa485770f1a76457bf2b2f58cd4703dc0c082f58a8343aa777304e833133040fdab8ef8451d85bc3c19721432514bb380330823abd
diff --git a/dev-python/cmd2/cmd2-0.7.9.ebuild b/dev-python/cmd2/cmd2-0.7.9.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d988f981f34dd
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@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5,3_6} pypy )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extra features for standard library's cmd module"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+
+# restrict tests because pyperclip is fairly unstable...
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/pyparsing-2.0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyperclip[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/six[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+python_test() {
+	py.test -vv || die
+	${EPYTHON} example/example.py --test example/exampleSession.txt || die
+}