diff --git a/net-im/swiften/Manifest b/net-im/swiften/Manifest
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+
+DIST swift-4.0.2.tar.gz 19083393 BLAKE2B de4ad1c3d68dfc4d693cdebdf4e18809210aa4e83af31b77bf730c7018507877852b5ea634623c037250de4005606108bd0372d39177093769c5dc5f72bd4812 SHA512 b7d4b90f387d5ea4ac3ca31794eabd1f12a64274628d75c7570f40269777b9003182884730a6340c5e0b5b7928a68bda5e49be623b47da9fa64fe4c3f25be167
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diff --git a/net-im/swiften/metadata.xml b/net-im/swiften/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>gentoo@tastytea.de</email>
+    <name>tastytea</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <use>
+    <flag name="gconf">Enable support for gnome-base/gconf</flag>
+  </use>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-im/swiften/swiften-4.0.2.ebuild b/net-im/swiften/swiften-4.0.2.ebuild
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index 000000000..1d3bc1e97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-im/swiften/swiften-4.0.2.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit scons-utils toolchain-funcs multilib
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for implementing XMPP applications."
+HOMEPAGE="http://swift.im/"
+MY_P="swift-${PV}"
+SRC_URI="http://swift.im/downloads/releases/${MY_P}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="avahi expat gconf icu luajit test upnp"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/boost:=
+	dev-libs/openssl:0
+	net-dns/libidn:0
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	avahi? ( net-dns/avahi )
+	expat? ( dev-libs/expat )
+	!expat? ( dev-libs/libxml2 )
+	gconf? ( gnome-base/gconf dev-libs/glib:2 )
+	luajit? ( || ( dev-lang/luajit:2 virtual/lua[luajit] ) )
+	!luajit? ( dev-lang/lua:* )
+	icu? ( dev-libs/icu:= )
+	upnp? ( net-libs/libnatpmp net-libs/miniupnpc:= )
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+# PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/${PN}-libdir-${PV}.patch"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# remove all bundled packages to ensure
+	# consistency of headers and linked libraries
+	rm -rf 3rdparty
+
+	# ## temp fix
+	# grep -rl boost/optional/optional_fwd.hpp Swiften | xargs sed \
+	# 	-e 's@optional_fwd.hpp@optional.hpp@' -i
+	# ## /temp fix
+
+	default
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local lua=lua;
+	use luajit && lua=luajit;
+
+	MYSCONS=(
+		cc="$(tc-getCC)"
+		cxx="$(tc-getCXX)"
+		ccflags="${CFLAGS} -std=c++11"
+		cxxflags="${CXXFLAGS} -std=c++11"
+		link="$(tc-getCXX)"
+		linkflags="${LDFLAGS}"
+		ar="$(tc-getAR)"
+		swiften_dll=true
+		zlib_includedir=/usr/include
+		zlib_libdir=/$(get_libdir)
+		lua_includedir=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable includedir ${lua})
+		lua_libdir=$($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable libdir ${lua})
+		{boost,libidn,zlib}_bundled_enable=false
+		icu=$(usex icu true false)
+		try_avahi=$(usex avahi true false)
+		try_gconf=$(usex gconf true false)
+		try_expat=$(usex expat true false)
+		try_libxml=$(usex expat false true)
+		experimental_ft=$(usex upnp true false)
+		ccache=0
+		distcc=1
+	)
+	# ccache working fine on compile phase, but produces AV's on install phase
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	escons "${MYSCONS[@]}" Swiften
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	escons "${MYSCONS[@]}" SWIFTEN_INSTALLDIR="${D}/usr" "${D}/usr" Swiften
+}