diff --git a/media-sound/picard/picard-3.0.0_alpha4.ebuild b/media-sound/picard/picard-3.0.0_alpha4.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-
-inherit distutils-r1 xdg
-
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999* ]]; then
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/metabrainz/picard"
-	inherit git-r3
-else
-	if [[ ${PV} == *_p* ]]; then
-		COMMIT="8e2cdc4a020b6db03006df8551eb3415511d6a13"
-		SRC_URI="https://github.com/metabrainz/${PN}/archive/${COMMIT}.tar.gz -> ${P}-${COMMIT:0:8}.tar.gz"
-		S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${COMMIT}"
-	elif [[ ${PV} == *alpha* ]]; then
-		SRC_URI="https://github.com/metabrainz/${PN}/releases/download/release-${PV/_alpha/a}/${PN}-${PV/_alpha/a}.tar.gz"
-		S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${PV/_alpha/a}"
-	else
-		SRC_URI="https://data.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-	fi
-	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Cross-platform music tagger"
-HOMEPAGE="https://picard.musicbrainz.org"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="discid fingerprints markdown multimedia nls"
-
-# Plugin manager, git based(?): dev-python/pygit2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		dev-python/charset-normalizer[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/fasteners[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/pyjwt-2.12[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyqt6[gui,multimedia?,network,qml,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		media-libs/mutagen[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		discid? ( dev-python/discid[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-		markdown? ( dev-python/markdown[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	')
-	fingerprints? ( media-libs/chromaprint[tools] )
-"
-DEPEND="test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/pyqt6[testlib,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]') )"
-BDEPEND="nls? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-python_compile() {
-	local build_args=(
-		--disable-autoupdate
-	)
-	if ! use nls; then
-		build_args+=( --disable-locales )
-	fi
-	distutils-r1_python_compile ${build_args[@]}
-}
-
-python_install() {
-	local install_args=(
-		--disable-autoupdate
-		--skip-build
-	)
-	if ! use nls; then
-		install_args+=( --disable-locales )
-	fi
-	distutils-r1_python_install ${install_args[@]}
-}