diff --git a/media-libs/vips/Manifest b/media-libs/vips/Manifest
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST vips-8.10.6.tar.gz 19532428 BLAKE2B ccc3fd55a8231a1efb65e12acc5b749c9331ce95fcdce6a95a3b3a6cb26da1846da68a44c16c71837ec7f4de0c14f60cf4b5605ab05b70209ae607ae257d0ec9 SHA512 e3e623ad7b44dfb65078c49d2694d94bb11294300630d9e3c53ff1f9e9aaf58d196881d52c191b4604d9f63453199b7da3601425ffc9554f1c25cf08d630ef8b
diff --git a/media-libs/vips/metadata.xml b/media-libs/vips/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="fits">Enable support for the FITS image format through <pkg>sci-libs/cfitsio</pkg></flag>
-		<flag name="matio">Enable support for reading images from Matlab files through <pkg>sci-libs/matio</pkg></flag>
-		<!--<flag name="openslide">Enable support for reading images from OpenSlide files through <pkg>media-libs/openslide</pkg>(currently conflicts with jpeg-turbo)</flag>-->
-		<flag name="gsf">Enable support for creating image pyramids with dzsave</flag>
-		<flag name="heif">Enable support for HEIC images</flag>
-		<flag name="pango">Enable support for text rendering</flag>
-		<!--<flag name="nsgif">Enable support for nsgif load</flag>-->
-		<flag name="imagequant">Enable support for 8bpp PNG via <pkg>media-gfx/libimagequant</pkg></flag>
-	</use>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">libvips/libvips</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-libs/vips/vips-8.10.6.ebuild b/media-libs/vips/vips-8.10.6.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit autotools multilib-minimal
-
-DESCRIPTION="VIPS Image Processing Library"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
-HOMEPAGE="https://libvips.github.io/libvips/"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
-SLOT="1"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="doc debug exif fftw fits heif gsf graphicsmagick imagemagick imagequant jpeg lcms matio openexr orc pango pdf png svg static-libs test tiff webp zlib"
-REQUIRED_USE="imagequant? ( png ) test? ( jpeg png )"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-# FIXME: nitfi (FIND_NIFTI)
-# openslide? ( >=media-libs/openslide-3.3.0 )
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.6:2
-	dev-libs/expat:=
-	debug? ( dev-libs/dmalloc )
-	fftw? ( sci-libs/fftw:3.0= )
-	imagemagick? (
-		graphicsmagick? ( media-gfx/graphicsmagick )
-		!graphicsmagick? ( media-gfx/imagemagick )
-	)
-	imagequant? ( media-gfx/libimagequant:= )
-	exif? ( >=media-libs/libexif-0.6 )
-	fits? ( sci-libs/cfitsio )
-	heif? ( >=media-libs/libheif-1.3.0:= )
-	jpeg? ( media-libs/libjpeg-turbo:0= )
-	gsf? ( gnome-extra/libgsf:= )
-	lcms? ( media-libs/lcms )
-	matio? ( >=sci-libs/matio-1.3.4 )
-	openexr? ( >=media-libs/openexr-1.2.2:= )
-	orc? ( >=dev-lang/orc-0.4.11 )
-	pango? ( x11-libs/pango )
-	pdf? ( app-text/poppler[cairo] )
-	png? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.9:0= )
-	svg? ( gnome-base/librsvg )
-	tiff? ( media-libs/tiff:0= )
-	webp? ( media-libs/libwebp )
-	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
-"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	doc? (
-		dev-util/gtk-doc
-		dev-util/gtk-doc-am
-	)
-"
-
-DOCS=(ChangeLog NEWS THANKS README.md)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	eautoreconf
-
-	multilib_copy_sources
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	local magick="--without-magick";
-	use imagemagick && magick="--with-magickpackage=MagickCore"
-	use graphicsmagick && magick="--with-magickpackage=GraphicsMagick"
-
-	# NOTE: Replace pangoft2 with pangocairo in > 8.10.6.
-	econf \
-		${magick} \
-		$(multilib_native_use_enable doc gtk-doc) \
-		$(use_enable debug) \
-		$(use_with debug dmalloc) \
-		$(use_with exif libexif) \
-		$(use_with fftw) \
-		$(use_with fits cfitsio) \
-		$(use_with gsf) \
-		$(use_with imagequant) \
-		$(use_with jpeg) \
-		$(use_with lcms) \
-		$(use_with matio ) \
-		$(use_with openexr OpenEXR) \
-		$(use_with orc) \
-		$(use_with pango pangoft2) \
-		$(use_with pdf poppler) \
-		$(use_with png) \
-		$(use_with svg rsvg) \
-		$(use_with tiff) \
-		$(use_with webp libwebp) \
-		$(use_with zlib) \
-		$(use_enable static-libs static)
-}
-
-# FIXME: Add the fancier pytest-based testsuite
-# You can find how it's used in ${S}/.travis.yml
-
-multilib_src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
-}
-multilib_src_install_all() {
-	einstalldocs
-	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -type f -delete || die
-}