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+SUMMARY = "Shared MIME type database and specification"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
+SECTION = "base"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+
+DEPENDS = "libxml2 intltool-native glib-2.0 shared-mime-info-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "libxml2-native intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-${PV}.tar.xz"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig gettext
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-update-mimedb"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/mime"
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "${datadir}/pkgconfig/shared-mime-info.pc"
+
+# freedesktop.org.xml is only required when updating the mime database,
+# package it separately
+PACKAGES =+ "shared-mime-info-data"
+FILES_shared-mime-info-data = "${datadir}/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml"
+RDEPENDS_shared-mime-info-data = "shared-mime-info"
+
+do_install () {
+	autotools_do_install
+
+	update-mime-database ${D}${datadir}/mime
+}
+
+do_install_class-native () {
+	autotools_do_install
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"