diff --git a/x11-themes/vertex-theme/Manifest b/x11-themes/vertex-theme/Manifest
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--- a/x11-themes/vertex-theme/Manifest
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-AUX configure-gtk3.patch 432 BLAKE2B 76616a1643ce229d5ce63a0954de980ff395b71cb134d778ba228adca2592298a094d910b0e2d57044538dfc074b50d8ec683821634fc9777b33e62b3b9b5919 SHA512 18b49d972b7980aae5c38feb2dcdbd3e1e1c979342f2df542a968726dc995921ec1a8f4b1f4b4da9f6f5c9573f0ce723d1284f9a46fcbcaad35c7a33731fdc07
-DIST vertex-theme-20160329.tar.gz 3770162 BLAKE2B 0e6f1dc1bfd349aa75ce12ba9f00ada11306fd1d5673725e24014e9b7817d7db4bf5927736e5c7c2cd8f4f473b0424d7565a42bffb0090344bd7a4723efae392 SHA512 bd63e9c5e6eadb7ea9a8a96c1131e3d55a2a715a399a7b5035fec1f6c2b89ee534e46b6e38ec0272d4cbcb05839b40d4a3fa0cabd4b8276a18c6fb059afe1c7d
-EBUILD vertex-theme-20160329.ebuild 1217 BLAKE2B 569874fad885907f6bef687926a4d18e47ead7ee251be1b429c14e75c19fb2bb739f1cde6027a725cffb7b798d4bd997bf33c6cd80dd0774b8ca5e8864c9185a SHA512 c54bf1d18f05518de023760cd8c52eb4c7f02ea892640e5c4cd7a552c00a1d7552f6808e79aa06931758cec5ec39e3f9b4d87637f534eb673aeaadb62559cd6a
diff --git a/x11-themes/vertex-theme/files/configure-gtk3.patch b/x11-themes/vertex-theme/files/configure-gtk3.patch
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---- vertex-theme/configure.ac.orig	2016-10-07 18:04:58.983884972 -0700
-+++ vertex-theme/configure.ac	2016-10-07 18:05:32.210976678 -0700
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
- VERTEX_ENABLE([UNITY],       [unity],       [Unity],        [disable])
- VERTEX_ENABLE([XFWM],        [xfwm],        [XFWM],         [disable])
- 
--VERTEX_GNOME
-+AS_IF([test "x$ENABLE_GNOME_SHELL$ENABLE_GTK3" != xnono], [VERTEX_GNOME])
- 
- AC_CONFIG_FILES([
-     common/Makefile
diff --git a/x11-themes/vertex-theme/vertex-theme-20160329.ebuild b/x11-themes/vertex-theme/vertex-theme-20160329.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=6
-
-inherit autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="A flat theme with transparent elements for GTK+3, GTK+2 and GNOME Shell"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/horst3180/vertex-theme"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/horst3180/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="cinnamon gnome-shell +gtk2 +gtk3 mate xfce"
-
-# Supports various GTK+3 versions and uses pkg-config to determine which
-# set of files to install. Updates will break it but only this fix will
-# help. https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/pull/436
-DEPEND="gtk3? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-3.14:3
-	virtual/pkgconfig )"
-
-# gnome-themes-standard is only needed by GTK+2 for the Adwaita
-# engine. This engine is built into GTK+3.
-RDEPEND="gtk2? ( x11-themes/gnome-themes-standard
-	x11-themes/gtk-engines-murrine )"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/configure-gtk3.patch
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--disable-unity \
-		$(use_enable cinnamon) \
-		$(use_enable gtk2) \
-		$(use_enable gtk3) \
-		$(use_enable gnome-shell) \
-		$(use_enable mate metacity) \
-		$(use_enable xfce xfwm)
-}