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+SUMMARY = "Lightweight, desktop independent GTK+ archive manager"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net"
+SECTION = "x11"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
+
+DEPENDS = "gtk+ glib-2.0 xfce4-dev-tools-native intltool-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/schnitzeltony/xarchiver.git;branch=master"
+SRCREV = "e80e90528c9aab2fe36d9078b945b44c05cc20d3"
+PV = "0.5.3"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit xfce-git gettext pkgconfig autotools gtk-icon-cache
+
+# install tap files for thunar-archive-plugin in ${libdir}/thunar-archive-plugin
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--libexecdir=${libdir}"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--enable-maintainer-mode"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/thunar-archive-plugin"
+
+RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "lzop zip tar bzip2 unzip xz"