diff --git a/dev-python/textfsm/Manifest b/dev-python/textfsm/Manifest
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+DIST textfsm-0.4.0.tar.gz 38355 BLAKE2B ae59973585ab0e1eed04ec300139165cf0634c154056f73697057928d2e17f25c7934171ab20825c6fdfb35f09b18cc0438443b28af356ae6be7a28f4cb8a5af SHA512 fe7d49c48b6e74859180b911a72e8c21bcf263b0403e8fdf28f9790633fb5b48ee2465eb3208c6649e489cb5fda3c4751e1748483042c934285636d190b01998
diff --git a/dev-python/textfsm/metadata.xml b/dev-python/textfsm/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="person">
+    <email>chainsaw@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Tony Vroon</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">google/textfsm</remote-id>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">textfsm</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/textfsm/textfsm-0.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/textfsm/textfsm-0.4.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{4,5,6} pypy )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python module for parsing semi-structured text into python tables."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/textfsm/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="examples"
+
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+	if use examples; then
+		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}
+		doins -r examples
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+}