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+*niicat-0_alpha (13 Nov 2019)
+
+  13 Nov 2019;  <hendrik@gentoo.org> +metadata.xml, +niicat-0_alpha.ebuild:
+  sci-visualization/niicat: new package ahead of Gentoo Science
diff --git a/sci-visualization/niicat/metadata.xml b/sci-visualization/niicat/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="person">
+    <email>klugh@student.ethz.ch</email>
+    <name>Hendrik Klug</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <longdescription lang="en">
+    This is a tool to quickly preview nifti images on the terminal. This can be helpful if you are working on a remote server via SSH and do not have a -X connection. 
+    Per default it uses libsixel to display the images. If you add the option -ic it will use iTerm2's imgcat command instead of libsixel to display the images.
+  
+  </longdescription>
+  <upstream>
+    <remote-id type="github">wasserth/niicat</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{5,6} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
+
+DESCRIPTION="This is a tool to quickly preview nifti images on the terminal"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/wasserth/niicat"
+SRC_URI=""
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/wasserth/niicat"
+EGIT_COMMIT="e4195584828e6af4f5d0efa6c2e551df9d94a99b"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux" #???
+IUSE="doc test" #???
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=sci-libs/nibabel-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/matplotlib[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	media-libs/libsixel
+"