diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/Manifest b/dev-python/yara-python/Manifest
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--- a/dev-python/yara-python/Manifest
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST yara-python-4.5.1.gh.tar.gz 39419 BLAKE2B e89677bd8b857e9c7b40b172311245ab7cc2149bfec6de09905494645d65abd67b1a41978101795ddb9dcb9d4344c3a4ffc23c96291580f17f59cdabe66a1d59 SHA512 fb3d78cea58a5dcb21287d5211805ef7097c07b9117e4fe78a7e56b40f2520950f0e8d6f1eb3c4253a454e10ca782c3826c19613bd17677bef491ae91f9f9d2a
diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/metadata.xml b/dev-python/yara-python/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="person" proxied="yes">
-		<email>mario.haustein@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de</email>
-		<name>Mario Haustein</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>sam@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Sam James</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
-		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription>
-		With this library you can use YARA from your Python programs. It covers
-		all YARA's features, from compiling, saving and loading rules to
-		scanning files, strings and processes.
-	</longdescription>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">VirusTotal/yara-python</remote-id>
-		<remote-id type="pypi">yara-python</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/yara-python/yara-python-4.5.1.ebuild b/dev-python/yara-python/yara-python-4.5.1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python interface for a malware identification and classification tool"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-python"
-
-if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-python.git"
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://github.com/virustotal/yara-python/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 x86"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	=app-forensics/yara-$(ver_cut 1-2)*
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-distutils_enable_tests unittest
-
-python_configure_all() {
-	cat >> setup.cfg <<-EOF
-	dynamic_linking = True
-	EOF
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	"${EPYTHON}" tests.py || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
-}