diff --git a/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/earlyoom-1.1.exheres-0 b/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/earlyoom-1.1.exheres-0
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+# Copyright 2016 Kylie McClain <somasis@exherbo.org>
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+require github [ user='rfjakob' tag="v${PV}" ]
+require systemd-service [ systemd_files=[ ${PN}.service ] ]
+require openrc-service [ openrc_confd_files=[ "${FILES}"/openrc/confd ] ]
+
+SUMMARY="A better and more proactive out-of-memory killer"
+SLOT="0"
+LICENCES="MIT"
+
+DEPENDENCIES="
+    test:
+        dev-lang/go
+"
+
+MYOPTIONS=""
+
+# tests never work in paludis/sydbox
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+PLATFORMS="~amd64"
+
+src_compile() {
+    emake \
+        VERSION=${PV} \
+        PREFIX=/usr/$(exhost --target) \
+        ${PN}.service ${PN}
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    dobin earlyoom
+    install_systemd_files
+    install_openrc_files
+    emagicdocs
+}
+
diff --git a/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/files/openrc/confd/earlyoom b/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/files/openrc/confd/earlyoom
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+# see 'earlyoom --help'
+EARLYOOM_OPTS=""
diff --git a/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/files/openrc/initd/earlyoom b/packages/sys-apps/earlyoom/files/openrc/initd/earlyoom
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+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+description="earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux "
+pidfile="/run/earlyoom.pid"
+command="/usr/bin/earlyoom"
+command_background="yes"
+command_args="${EARLYOOM_OPTS}"
+start_stop_daemon_args="-p ${pidfile}"
+