diff --git a/virtual/imagemagick-tools/imagemagick-tools-0.ebuild b/virtual/imagemagick-tools/imagemagick-tools-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual for imagemagick command line tools"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
+IUSE="jpeg perl png svg tiff"
+
+# This virtual is to be used **ONLY** for depending on the runtime
+# tools of imagemagick/graphicsmagick. It should and cannot be used
+# for linking against, as subslots are not transitively passed on.
+# For linking, you will need to depend on the respective libraries
+# in all consuming ebuilds and use appropriate sub-slot operators.
+# See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314431
+RDEPEND="
+	|| (
+		media-gfx/imagemagick[jpeg?,perl?,png?,svg?,tiff?]
+		media-gfx/graphicsmagick[imagemagick,jpeg?,perl?,png?,svg?,tiff?]
+	)"
diff --git a/virtual/imagemagick-tools/metadata.xml b/virtual/imagemagick-tools/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>graphics@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Graphics Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>