diff --git a/p5-event/.footprint b/p5-event/.footprint
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+++ b/p5-event/.footprint
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+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event.pod
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/EventAPI.h
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/MakeMaker.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/Watcher.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/generic.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/generic.pod
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/group.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/idle.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/io.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/signal.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/timer.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/type.pm
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/typemap
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/Event/var.pm
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Event/
+-r-xr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/linux/auto/Event/Event.so
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man3/
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man3/Event.3pm.gz
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man3/Event::MakeMaker.3pm.gz
+-r--r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man3/Event::generic.3pm.gz
diff --git a/p5-event/.md5sum b/p5-event/.md5sum
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+++ b/p5-event/.md5sum
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+475b5613c584256fa23b4215103f106c  Event-1.08.tar.gz
diff --git a/p5-event/Pkgfile b/p5-event/Pkgfile
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+# Description: Perl bindings for Event
+# URL:         http://www.gtkperl.org
+# Maintainer:  Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
+# Depends on:  perl
+
+name=p5-event
+version=1.08
+release=1
+source="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Event/Event-$version.tar.gz"
+
+
+build()
+{
+    cd Event-$version
+    perl Makefile.PL
+    make OPTIMIZE="$CFLAGS"
+    make install DESTDIR=$PKG
+    find $PKG \
+        -name perllocal.pod \
+        -o -name "*.bs" \
+        -o -name .packlist | xargs rm
+    find $PKG -empty | xargs rmdir -p ||:
+}