diff --git a/srcpkgs/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic b/srcpkgs/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
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-COSMIC-Desktop
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diff --git a/srcpkgs/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic/template b/srcpkgs/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic/template
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+# Template file for 'xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic'
+pkgname=xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
+version=1.0.0.alpha.1
+revision=1
+_tag=epoch-${version/.alpha/-alpha}
+build_style=cargo
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config llvm18 clang18"
+makedepends="libxkbcommon-devel libgbm-devel pipewire-devel llvm18-devel
+ glib-devel gstreamer1-devel"
+depends="xdg-desktop-portal"
+short_desc="TODO: xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic short_desc"
+maintainer="Daniel Martinez <danielmartinez@cock.li>"
+license="GPL-3.0-only"
+homepage="https://github.com/pop-os/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic"
+distfiles="https://github.com/pop-os/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic/archive/refs/tags/${_tag}.tar.gz"
+checksum=ad67ab52825fa86906c454d14ce4a065947c0216554e314e4008a6d0de5ad516
+
+export VERGEN_GIT_COMMIT_DATE="${version}_${revision}"
+export VERGEN_GIT_SHA="${version}_${revision}"
+
+do_install() {
+	DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" prefix=/usr CARGO_TARGET_DIR="target/${RUST_TARGET}" make install
+}