diff --git a/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild b/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild
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--- a/virtual/perl-IO-Compress/perl-IO-Compress-2.220.0-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for ${PN#perl-}"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	|| ( ~dev-lang/perl-5.44.0_rc1 ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
-	dev-lang/perl:=
-	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
-	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999
-	>=virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.218.0
-	>=virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-${PV}
-"
-# Dependencies on Compress-Raw* must be kept in step
-# but sometimes not .... use ${PV} when you can.