diff --git a/dev-lua/penlight/Manifest b/dev-lua/penlight/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-lua/penlight/Manifest
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+DIST penlight-1.3.2-core.zip 116854 SHA256 553c937011063a9eb5a2234bd3d5d7896c77990ca41693ca317d20b2af961c4d SHA512 01ba35e967e255f6f39afff9c2238f4921de9e52850ce0d2ec0c9068029fc61a241c82bede680a28fda46c4504582784fcd2241a2eef0bef95c7c389c4042d02 WHIRLPOOL 6e4c7e14294d0837f799b58d703826de7e2d4a6212f4e8f15e52c9cd4e3f80d82a6389c4bba92c3a1efbbc2bda8e5fbd3d907ebcb1fd6ba0216cebde9a13ba22
diff --git a/dev-lua/penlight/metadata.xml b/dev-lua/penlight/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer>
+		<email>williamh@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>William Hubbs</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Penlight is a set of pure Lua libraries for making it easier to work
+		with common tasks like iterating over directories, reading
+		configuration files and the like. Provides functional operations
+		on tables and sequences.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-lua/penlight/penlight-1.3.2.ebuild b/dev-lua/penlight/penlight-1.3.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Lua utility libraries loosely based on the Python standard libraries"
+HOMEPAGE="http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight",
+SRC_URI="http://stevedonovan.github.io/files/${PN}-1.3.2-core.zip"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-lang/lua-5.1:="
+DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+app-arch/unzip
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
+	dev-lua/luafilesystem"
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto "$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable INSTALL_LMOD lua)"
+	doins -r lua/pl
+}