diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/build b/xorg/libevdev/build
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+++ b/xorg/libevdev/build
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+./configure \
+    --prefix=/usr \
+    --disable-gcov
+
+make
+make DESTDIR="$1" install
diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/checksums b/xorg/libevdev/checksums
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index 00000000..6c8c5ff6
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+++ b/xorg/libevdev/checksums
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+11dbe1f2b1d03a51f3e9a196757a75c3a999042ce34cf1fdc00a2363e5a2e369  libevdev-1.7.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/depends b/xorg/libevdev/depends
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/xorg/libevdev/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+linux-headers make
+python        make
diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/licenses b/xorg/libevdev/licenses
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index 00000000..5826f3c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xorg/libevdev/licenses
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+The following is the MIT license, agreed upon by most contributors.
+Copyright holders of new code should use this license statement where
+possible. They may also add themselves to the list below.
+
+/*
+ * Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989, 1998  The Open Group
+ * Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989 Digital Equipment Corporation
+ * Copyright 1999, 2004, 2008 Keith Packard
+ * Copyright 2000 SuSE, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2000 Keith Packard, member of The XFree86 Project, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright 2004 Nicholas Miell
+ * Copyright 2005 Lars Knoll & Zack Rusin, Trolltech
+ * Copyright 2005 Trolltech AS
+ * Copyright 2007 Luca Barbato
+ * Copyright 2008 Aaron Plattner, NVIDIA Corporation
+ * Copyright 2008 Rodrigo Kumpera
+ * Copyright 2008 André Tupinambá
+ * Copyright 2008 Mozilla Corporation
+ * Copyright 2008 Frederic Plourde
+ * Copyright 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright 2009, 2010 Nokia Corporation
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+ * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+ * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+ * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+ * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+ * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+ * paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+ * Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+ * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+ * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+ * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+ * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/sources b/xorg/libevdev/sources
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+++ b/xorg/libevdev/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/libevdev-1.7.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/xorg/libevdev/version b/xorg/libevdev/version
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/xorg/libevdev/version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1.7.0 1