diff --git a/dev-python/nextcord/Manifest b/dev-python/nextcord/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/nextcord/Manifest
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+DIST nextcord-2.0.0_alpha8.tar.gz 869308 BLAKE2B d6e952a11aa898a4cc76aa736a1226b0619f14429e5dc241c5bc937f7ed28611954f27c15c641cf16532aa11dd44b2d3bb553a646db12049b767a2319c774246 SHA512 0be28b3d86cd6c5534c2e735c1d99b7a289ee3b5176139fe92968ba292617073c7938e05ad9a3daad985611ad5aacabab29d1f8b354b7ffd8a6e79a19b3085bc
+EBUILD nextcord-2.0.0_alpha8.ebuild 810 BLAKE2B dd32fdb36d17243d8b6028426051ecc239ae358183e2bb9738a3b9b01d41a986777555a1dd35c59c96cd8e689178c90fcd68d2ebf8d10b32c5a3a713070a05af SHA512 d7c315920dd0cc824c730fb5067268e72586cee2929e0b145a8e39930791a729191e76682d8466337f3c8f4ff21c423214754e6176a8174bc900be5f6b25ac99
+MISC metadata.xml 327 BLAKE2B 39929daa6db8ac9ccdc36ebe3d7e4cc3933330e428fbe127de0bc11a7199efeb5d6155d3232f3693f9ca89b294894e1787a308f60a5bc1819c0de0a25f06c25d SHA512 a9b89d997c2cbf680ed81893a30ad40b9e46e52e48b608574667f96843752bbf4198f7632c0ba9c0af0d9bd27302032802360ca862aebec7406a57e48ae5fe89
diff --git a/dev-python/nextcord/metadata.xml b/dev-python/nextcord/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="project">
+    <email>b@edevau.net</email>
+    <name>Andreas Billmeier</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="pypi">nextcord</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/nextcord/nextcord-2.0.0_alpha8.ebuild b/dev-python/nextcord/nextcord-2.0.0_alpha8.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A Python wrapper for the Discord API forked from discord.py"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/nextcord/nextcord https://pypi.org/project/nextcord/"
+MY_PN=${PN/-/.}
+MY_PV=${PV/_alpha/a}
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${P:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_PN}-${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}-${MY_PV}
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DOCS="README.rst"
+
+RDEPEND=""
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/nose[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)"
+
+python_test() {
+	nosetests --verbose || die
+	py.test -v -v || die
+}