diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14f4f8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.DS_Store
+app-misc/dummy
diff --git a/dev-python/chr-helpers/chr-helpers-9999.ebuild~ b/dev-python/chr-helpers/chr-helpers-9999.ebuild~
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-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-tex/envlab/envlab-1.2-r1.ebuild,v 1.18 2012/05/09 17:16:08 aballier Exp $
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_2,3_3} )
-
-inherit python-single-r1 git-2
-
-DESCRIPTION="Helper Functions for TheChymera's python scripts"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/TheChymera/chr-helpers"
-EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/TheChymera/chr-helpers.git"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-
-SLOT="0"
-LICENSE="LPPL-1.3 BSD"
-KEYWORDS=""
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-DEPEND=""
-
-RDEPEND="dev-python/pandas"
-
-src_install() {
-	python_optimize .
-	python_domodule "${S}"/pythontex_engines.py 
-}
-
-