diff --git a/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp/Manifest b/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp/Manifest
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-DIST abseil-cpp-20230802.0.tar.gz 2156669 BLAKE2B 34de2f949db3e7578cae39bdd851785fd5327a80662436e7d77f18e196cc28eb1b463e9f49c8fc66060073c6c88222015af8b41044d56af6811c8914e84fbea3 SHA512 320295fa687ded05b774741eb4c5285291d44cc14402ec5d997057cb4f53fb3ba54cd162c7a7b1003312b677603a1c25e14bfdbd1fc22ccf4b4443e8a6e3ec02
-EBUILD abseil-cpp-20230802.0.ebuild 1478 BLAKE2B 5d7c7cb2078e016feb12c325aab39696916a5587068bad7d9844b189d1f376a06e49de7e3dcc2d48bc4949d7f84f58db06f816b99aca973be889600179706857 SHA512 db8085b22c15ed93bc4913d8048e9a5729bb22f7e3a5ea5263a4aa94ca233a4c75e61167e56dcd04d83f926451e0f10af130a1cc59d14b3d51d6a94b20cf655e
diff --git a/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20230802.0.ebuild b/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20230802.0.ebuild
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index b0f16e1..0000000
--- a/dev-cpp/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp-20230802.0.ebuild
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-# Copyright 2020-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..12} )
-
-inherit cmake-multilib python-any-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Abseil Common Libraries (C++), LTS Branch"
-HOMEPAGE="https://abseil.io/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0/${PV%%.*}"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="test"
-
-DEPEND=""
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	test? (
-		>=dev-cpp/gtest-1.13.0
-		sys-libs/timezone-data
-	)
-"
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	cmake_src_prepare
-
-	# un-hardcode abseil compiler flags
-	sed -i \
-		-e '/"-maes",/d' \
-		-e '/"-msse4.1",/d' \
-		-e '/"-mfpu=neon"/d' \
-		-e '/"-march=armv8-a+crypto"/d' \
-		absl/copts/copts.py || die
-
-	# now generate cmake files
-	python_fix_shebang absl/copts/generate_copts.py
-	absl/copts/generate_copts.py || die
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		# We use -std=c++14 here so that abseil-cpp's string_view is used
-		# See the discussion in https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/32281.
-		-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17
-		-DABSL_ENABLE_INSTALL=TRUE
-		-DABSL_USE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLETEST=ON
-		-DABSL_PROPAGATE_CXX_STD=TRUE
-		-DABSL_BUILD_TEST_HELPERS=$(usex test ON OFF)
-		-DABSL_BUILD_TESTING=$(usex test ON OFF)
-		$(usex test -DBUILD_TESTING=ON '') # intentional usex, it used both variables for tests.
-	)
-
-	cmake_src_configure
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/protobuf/Manifest b/dev-libs/protobuf/Manifest
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index 4cc6559..0000000
--- a/dev-libs/protobuf/Manifest
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-DIST protobuf-24.4.tar.gz 5180235 BLAKE2B 1c7e9035d9f3810886baaea7d679414c882463c79828c99dd8895a9549638c1ca17f9ab3b38d461019f3e1412d9cb9584b995b1da99866eb6fdbb8bdeb063e6f SHA512 52b6ab5587d03cbd1f35cf3cdc388e1710fa50f3031559ac53cf754965407ded7602cdead56080444ab695588112cc3391a1d7fdd5e565d90d0af7ad08706315
-EBUILD protobuf-24.4.ebuild 2446 BLAKE2B d3416e9fe637be0fce05618a8a9c9ed6c08bf6bd060bfcdab54f55be4c19c755e93bd3c8e70427fb5145e78ace7d5f768266689ed4dc08c828f59b86cb12d48a SHA512 458d2c7059e82f4f54e2bba04da69485a5ac89d0eb6befeaab0c3a76841fa1a63438181dde730d0d9472e0fa6d9e804afba3bf3bc0519d9262da4d4a9912bf4d
diff --git a/dev-libs/protobuf/protobuf-24.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/protobuf/protobuf-24.4.ebuild
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index 85e62db..0000000
--- a/dev-libs/protobuf/protobuf-24.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2008-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit cmake-multilib elisp-common toolchain-funcs
-
-if [[ "${PV}" == *9999 ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git"
-	EGIT_SUBMODULES=()
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Google's Protocol Buffers - Extensible mechanism for serializing structured data"
-HOMEPAGE="https://protobuf.dev/"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 1-2).0"
-IUSE="emacs examples test zlib"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-BDEPEND="emacs? ( app-editors/emacs:* )"
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/abseil-cpp-20230125.3:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
-	test? ( >=dev-cpp/gtest-1.9[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/abseil-cpp-20230125.3:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	emacs? ( app-editors/emacs:* )
-	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
-"
-
-#PATCHES=(
-#    ${FILESDIR}/protobuf-v24.4.patch
-#)
-
-DOCS=( CONTRIBUTORS.txt README.md )
-
-src_configure() {
-	if tc-ld-is-gold; then
-		# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24527
-		tc-ld-disable-gold
-	fi
-
-	cmake-multilib_src_configure
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		-Dprotobuf_DISABLE_RTTI=ON
-		-Dprotobuf_BUILD_EXAMPLES=$(usex examples)
-		-Dprotobuf_WITH_ZLIB=$(usex zlib)
-		-Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=$(usex test)
-		-Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package
-	)
-	use test && mycmakeargs+=(-Dprotobuf_USE_EXTERNAL_GTEST=ON)
-
-	cmake_src_configure
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	cmake-multilib_src_compile
-
-	if use emacs; then
-		elisp-compile editors/protobuf-mode.el
-	fi
-}
-
-multilib_src_install_all() {
-	find "${ED}" -name "*.la" -delete || die
-
-	if [[ ! -f "${ED}/usr/$(get_libdir)/libprotobuf.so.${SLOT#*/}" ]]; then
-		eerror "No matching library found with SLOT variable, currently set: ${SLOT}\n" \
-			"Expected value: ${ED}/usr/$(get_libdir)/libprotobuf.so.${SLOT#*/}"
-		die "Please update SLOT variable"
-	fi
-
-	if use emacs; then
-		elisp-install ${PN} editors/protobuf-mode.el*
-		elisp-site-file-install "${FILESDIR}/70${PN}-gentoo.el"
-	fi
-
-	if use examples; then
-		DOCS+=(examples)
-		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
-	fi
-
-	einstalldocs
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	use emacs && elisp-site-regen
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	use emacs && elisp-site-regen
-}
diff --git a/dev-libs/re2/Manifest b/dev-libs/re2/Manifest
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-DIST re2-2023-08-01.tar.gz 396553 BLAKE2B 4e9eed4d7be9e6ea0467099323293d95d5f0db80a9d8fc996e20aebf87d800b548eb0f526c3966843adac5da5568acc731cb8296101f5030cc36b26c1ef42ca6 SHA512 33703f87dbb359e481c46fd97977d420a9f0f3d4b378b8a0ecdec60d3c7b237d941b37780101f229c5e4785898a208963616a390d6c01d849c455716eae85106
-EBUILD re2-0.2023.08.01.ebuild 1360 BLAKE2B c05651d26792e5526440b0add5639cde5097c04e97209a64635a470094811340e70d5bbb776326a06935f8692c3e8f0ea9c6b867f92ccfbf2c6adaa5d2c59aa3 SHA512 100dfdc937b12a46a7270aa1847f2d9df104a58e857c9233784902024430007547da15d7afda2a09cee40d59838361d603c27c7aa0077c717ff99096a5ef70ea
diff --git a/dev-libs/re2/re2-0.2023.08.01.ebuild b/dev-libs/re2/re2-0.2023.08.01.ebuild
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index 1dda5d9..0000000
--- a/dev-libs/re2/re2-0.2023.08.01.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2012-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit multilib-minimal toolchain-funcs
-
-# Different date format used upstream.
-RE2_VER=${PV#0.}
-RE2_VER=${RE2_VER//./-}
-
-DESCRIPTION="An efficient, principled regular expression library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/google/re2"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/google/re2/archive/${RE2_VER}.tar.gz -> re2-${RE2_VER}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-# NOTE: Always run libre2 through abi-compliance-checker!
-# https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/re2/
-SONAME="11"
-SLOT="0/${SONAME}"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="icu"
-
-BDEPEND="icu? ( virtual/pkgconfig )"
-DEPEND="icu? ( dev-libs/icu:0=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/re2-${RE2_VER}"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS CONTRIBUTORS README doc/syntax.txt )
-HTML_DOCS=( doc/syntax.html )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	grep -q "^SONAME=${SONAME}\$" Makefile || die "SONAME mismatch"
-	if use icu; then
-		sed -i -e 's:^# \(\(CC\|LD\)ICU=.*\):\1:' Makefile || die
-	fi
-	multilib_copy_sources
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export AR CXX
-}
-
-multilib_src_compile() {
-	emake SONAME="${SONAME}" shared
-}
-
-multilib_src_install() {
-	emake SONAME="${SONAME}" DESTDIR="${D}" prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" libdir="\$(exec_prefix)/$(get_libdir)" shared-install
-}