diff --git a/dev-libs/zix/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/zix/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-libs/zix/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>flewkey@2a03.party</email>
+		<name>Ryan Fox</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="gitlab">drobilla/zix</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-libs/zix/zix-9999.ebuild b/dev-libs/zix/zix-9999.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit git-r3 meson
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.com/drobilla/zix.git"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A C data structures library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.com/drobilla/zix"
+LICENSE="ISC"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="doc"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="doc? ( dev-python/sphinx )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_feature doc docs)
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}