diff --git a/sys-process/cronbase/cronbase-0.3.7-r7.ebuild b/sys-process/cronbase/cronbase-0.3.7-r7.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Base for all cron ebuilds"
-HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/No_homepage"
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
-
-DEPEND="
-	acct-group/cron
-	acct-user/cron
-"
-
-src_install() {
-	newsbin "${FILESDIR}"/run-crons-${PV} run-crons
-
-	diropts -m0750
-	keepdir /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
-
-	keepdir /var/spool/cron/lastrun
-	diropts -m0750 -o root -g cron
-	keepdir /var/spool/cron
-}