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+SUMMARY = "low-footprint drop-in polkit replacement"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/bmwcarit/smolkit"
+DESCRIPTION = "\
+  Service that implements a subset of polkit's D-Bus interface with a static configuration language. \
+"
+
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
+
+inherit cmake features_check pkgconfig
+
+DEPENDS = "\
+  rapidjson \
+  sdbus-c++ \
+"
+
+CONFLICT_DISTRO_FEATURES = "polkit"
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "smolkit"
+
+PV = "0.2+git"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    git://github.com/bmwcarit/${BPN}.git;protocol=https;branch=main \
+"
+SRCREV = "46bbfd5c922a8d03a534398ee129ded822dfcafe"
+
+S = "${UNPACKDIR}/${BB_GIT_DEFAULT_DESTSUFFIX}"