diff --git a/dev-python/metakernel/Manifest b/dev-python/metakernel/Manifest
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+DIST metakernel-0.20.4.tar.gz 67895 SHA256 ec437d01f76dd0d6eb6cf887590726e364a3a1811c018d1793102bb384275300 SHA512 8ab2943a93e61bfca276607adac5e619c407a2356656424d261eb520002bf582469f71329a3b2b2fcc290b21a4dffd724f5b73697c6853b5cb74eec07e26ede3 WHIRLPOOL bbcca2583be251fb695d4e0f4f8b7e741e5ec52c28c4726efa784ac6f4fa862332d698a03a9b168492ef9fe0cb98b45d240a8763c888ddfcafd2057cda9d8ab8
diff --git a/dev-python/metakernel/metadata.xml b/dev-python/metakernel/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 type="project">
+    <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription>
+    A Jupyter/IPython kernel template which includes core magic
+    functions (including help, command and file path completion,
+    parallel and distributed processing, downloads, and much more).
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">Calysto/metakernel</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">metakernel</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/metakernel/metakernel-0.20.4.ebuild b/dev-python/metakernel/metakernel-0.20.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_{4,5,6}} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Metakernel for Jupyter"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Calysto/metakernel"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="test"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-python/ipykernel[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pexpect[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (	dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+"
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests -v || die
+}