diff --git a/net-im/skype/Manifest b/net-im/skype/Manifest
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+DIST skype-2.1.0.47.tar.bz2 19748117 RMD160 7b5a3255b6a1db7c622355793ec3e582d9ff2777 SHA1 a0c7918767f01e79c37d4bd4dc085855c111994b SHA256 f4db42b21138ca9d424409f880dd311faa0f5e60003f5bbb82d6006dcfd61971
+DIST skype_static-2.1.0.47.tar.bz2 27323809 RMD160 6e63f345a40bf06d51a9d9d7698bf61992ac93c8 SHA1 aa9a2b6b8bc164ffbaa0141bc0ba7de470792921 SHA256 56b0fa6185661b187a409dc09b99ada3e01fa82aaae5f1048f8a698aa6f86e81
+EBUILD skype-2.1.0.47.ebuild 2510 RMD160 47768998b127dab92551031f7bce243e0e623fb4 SHA1 a6ea5ff9d564f4147e5445803e797fa2bd0abc2c SHA256 7cb6c64a4af5b5a41f4a9386fd33179c0917aafad010b3432a23bc0aff4d3bff
diff --git a/net-im/skype/skype-2.1.0.47.ebuild b/net-im/skype/skype-2.1.0.47.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-im/skype/skype-2.0.0.72.ebuild,v 1.3 2009/04/14 09:38:40 armin76 Exp $
+
+EAPI=2
+
+inherit eutils qt4 pax-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="A P2P-VoiceIP client."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.skype.com/"
+
+S_P="${PN}_static-${PV}"
+SRC_URI="
+	!qt-static? ( http://download.${PN}.com/linux/${P}.tar.bz2 )
+	qt-static? ( http://download.${PN}.com/linux/${S_P}.tar.bz2 )
+"
+
+LICENSE="skype-eula"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="qt-static"
+RESTRICT="mirror strip"
+
+DEPEND="media-fonts/freefont-ttf
+	amd64? (
+		>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-2.1.1
+		app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat
+		>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-2.4
+		>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-1.2
+	)
+	x86? (
+		>=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11
+		>=sys-libs/glibc-2.4
+		x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
+		x11-libs/libXv
+		qt-static? (
+			media-libs/fontconfig
+			media-libs/freetype
+			x11-libs/libICE
+			x11-libs/libSM
+			x11-libs/libXcursor
+			x11-libs/libXext
+			x11-libs/libXfixes
+			x11-libs/libXi
+			x11-libs/libXinerama
+			x11-libs/libXrandr
+			x11-libs/libXrender
+			x11-libs/libX11
+		)
+		!qt-static? (
+			x11-libs/qt-gui:4[accessibility,dbus]
+			x11-libs/qt-dbus:4
+			x11-libs/libX11
+			x11-libs/libXau
+			x11-libs/libXdmcp
+		)
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+QA_EXECSTACK="opt/${PN}/${PN}"
+
+use qt-static && S="${WORKDIR}/${S_P}"
+
+src_install() {
+	exeinto /opt/${PN}
+	doexe ${PN} || die
+	fowners root:audio /opt/${PN}/${PN}
+	make_wrapper ${PN} /opt/${PN}/${PN} /opt/${PN} /opt/${PN} /usr/bin
+
+	insinto /opt/${PN}/sounds
+	doins sounds/*.wav || die
+
+	if ! use qt-static ; then
+		insinto /etc/dbus-1/system.d
+		doins ${PN}.conf || die
+	fi
+
+	insinto /opt/${PN}/lang
+	#
+	#There have been some issues were lang is not updated from the .ts files
+	#but if we have qt we can rebuild it
+	#
+	if ! use qt-static ; then
+		lrelease lang/*.ts
+	fi
+
+	doins lang/*.qm || die
+
+	insinto /opt/${PN}/avatars
+	doins avatars/*.png || die
+
+	insinto /opt/${PN}
+	for X in 16 32 48
+	do
+		insinto /usr/share/icons/hicolor/${X}x${X}/apps
+		newins "${S}"/icons/SkypeBlue_${X}x${X}.png ${PN}.png || die
+	done
+
+	dodoc README || die
+
+	# insinto /usr/share/applications/
+	# doins skype.desktop
+	make_desktop_entry ${PN} "Skype VoIP" ${PN} "Network;InstantMessaging;Telephony"
+
+	#Fix for no sound notifications
+	dosym /opt/${PN} /usr/share/${PN}
+
+	# TODO: Optional configuration of callto:// in KDE, Mozilla and friends
+	# doexe skype-callto-handler
+}