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+SUMMARY = "The cinnamon-desktop library"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
+    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
+    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2 \
+"
+
+DEPENDS = " \
+    glib-2.0-native \
+    intltool-native \
+    gtk+3 \
+    libxkbfile \
+    pulseaudio \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= "alsa"
+PACKAGECONFIG[alsa] = "-Dalsa=true,-Dalsa=false,alsa-lib"
+
+inherit meson features_check gobject-introspection gettext gsettings
+
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11 pulseaudio"
+
+# gobject-introspection is mandatory and cannot be configured
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "gobject-introspection-data"
+UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST_append = " introspection"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-desktop.git"
+SRCREV = "7113417186f2c4c8688f313935291daaf7cc2bcd"
+PV = "4.4.1"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas \
+    ${datadir}/libcinnamon-desktop \
+"