diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest-devel b/srcpkgs/rest-devel
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+rest
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diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/depends b/srcpkgs/rest/depends
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+abi_depends=">=0.7"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/rest/rest-devel.template
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+# Template file for 'rest-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} (development files)"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run glib-devel
+Add_dependency run libxml2-devel
+Add_dependency run libsoup-devel
+Add_dependency run libsoup-gnome-devel
+Add_dependency run rest
+
+do_install()
+{
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove usr/share usr
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/rest/template b/srcpkgs/rest/template
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+# Template file for 'rest'
+pkgname=rest
+version=0.7.10
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/$pkgname/0.7/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+short_desc="RESTful library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=2908f974ae6cc71af1152d419209f307bcce8ca2dfe0b4b55b3fad8ba4a646a5
+long_desc="
+ This library has been designed to make it easier to access web services that
+ claim to be RESTful. A reasonable definition of what this means can be found
+ on Wikipedia [1]. However a reasonable description is that a RESTful service
+ should have urls that represent remote objects which methods can then be
+ called on."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run glib
+Add_dependency run libxml2
+Add_dependency run libsoup
+Add_dependency run libsoup-gnome
+
+Add_dependency build pkg-config
+Add_dependency build gobject-introspection
+Add_dependency build glib-devel
+Add_dependency build libsoup-devel
+Add_dependency build libsoup-gnome-devel
+Add_dependency build libxml2-devel