diff --git a/virtual/cargo/cargo-1.27.1.ebuild b/virtual/cargo/cargo-1.27.1.ebuild
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+++ b/virtual/cargo/cargo-1.27.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="Package manager for Rust"
+HOMEPAGE=""
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE=""
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+
+BDEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="|| (
+			=dev-lang/rust-${PV}*[cargo]
+			=dev-lang/rust-bin-${PV}*[cargo]
+			=dev-util/cargo-0.28.0*
+		)"
diff --git a/virtual/cargo/metadata.xml b/virtual/cargo/metadata.xml
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+++ b/virtual/cargo/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>rust@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Rust Project</name>
+  </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>