diff --git a/acct-user/timidity/metadata.xml b/acct-user/timidity/metadata.xml
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+++ b/acct-user/timidity/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>sound@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Sound project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/acct-user/timidity/timidity-0.ebuild b/acct-user/timidity/timidity-0.ebuild
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index 0000000000000..c4e6822876db4
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+++ b/acct-user/timidity/timidity-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit acct-user
+
+DESCRIPTION="A user for media-sound/timidity++"
+
+ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( "nobody" )
+ACCT_USER_HOME="/var/lib/timidity"
+ACCT_USER_HOME_PERMS="0700"
+ACCT_USER_ID="306"
+
+acct-user_add_deps