diff --git a/dev-util/dialog/Manifest b/dev-util/dialog/Manifest
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-DIST dialog-1.3-20181022.tgz 531815 BLAKE2B c6a34010eb991683356338009998964fde60bcae4181d8b07e6d5b9f0d0e9a61d3f0b112fad02c151b1774380e18b87f93f43fdfe35e0fba86914c029eaa274c SHA512 5d7891086ab6d2f4a815538513b09754a56368bbb0ec3bd107346fd2ed6ae10fa858173447fa609cce28a91e234ed8067d9439efeb973593fff2df1e811a8925
diff --git a/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20181022.ebuild b/dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20181022.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-inherit eutils multilib versionator
-
-DIA_P="${PN}-$(replace_version_separator 2 '-')"
-DESCRIPTION="tool to display dialog boxes from a shell"
-HOMEPAGE="https://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
-SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~jer/${DIA_P}.tgz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0/15"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-IUSE="examples minimal nls static-libs unicode"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r5:=[unicode?]
-"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	nls? ( dev-build/gettext )
-	!minimal? ( sys-devel/libtool )
-	!<=sys-freebsd/freebsd-contrib-8.9999
-"
-S=${WORKDIR}/${DIA_P}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	sed -i -e '/LIB_CREATE=/s:${CC}:& ${LDFLAGS}:g' configure || die
-	sed -i '/$(LIBTOOL_COMPILE)/s:$: $(LIBTOOL_OPTS):' makefile.in || die
-	# configure searches all over the world for some things...
-	sed -i configure \
-		-e 's:^test -d "\(/usr\|$prefix\|/usr/local\|/opt\|$HOME\):test -d "XnoX:' || die
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	# doing this libtool stuff through configure
-	# (--with-libtool=/path/to/libtool) strangely breaks the build
-	local glibtool="libtool"
-	[[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] && glibtool="glibtool"
-	export ac_cv_path_LIBTOOL="$(type -P ${glibtool})"
-
-	econf \
-		--disable-rpath-hack \
-		$(use_enable nls) \
-		$(use_with !minimal libtool) \
-		--with-libtool-opts=$(usex static-libs '' '-shared') \
-		--with-ncurses$(usex unicode w '')
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	use minimal && default || emake DESTDIR="${D}" install-full
-
-	use examples && dodoc -r samples
-
-	dodoc CHANGES README
-
-	prune_libtool_files
-}
diff --git a/dev-util/dialog/metadata.xml b/dev-util/dialog/metadata.xml
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--- a/dev-util/dialog/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="project">
-<email>livecd@gentoo.org</email>
-<name>Gentoo LiveCD Project</name>
-</maintainer>
-<use>
-<flag name="minimal">Disable library, install command-line program only</flag>
-</use>
-</pkgmetadata>