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+# Template file for 'herbstluftwm'
+pkgname=herbstluftwm
+version=0.5.2
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libXinerama-devel libglib-devel"
+short_desc="A manual tiling window manager for X"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-3"
+homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/sed"
+distfiles="http://herbstluftwm.org/tarballs/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=c53d3309f9f05cc4b1b23907f4c0c403d850817dac8d1cc481e122fece599995
+
+do_build() {
+	make COLOR=0 CC=$CC LD=$CC
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} COLOR=0 install
+	vmkdir usr/share/bash-completion/completions
+	mv ${DESTDIR}/etc/bash_completion.d/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
+}
+
+herbstluftwm_package() {
+	conf_files="/etc/xdg/${pkgname}/autostart"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove all
+	}
+}