diff --git a/virtual/perl-IO/metadata.xml b/virtual/perl-IO/metadata.xml
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/virtual/perl-IO/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<stabilize-allarches/>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/virtual/perl-IO/perl-IO-1.460.0.ebuild b/virtual/perl-IO/perl-IO-1.460.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual for ${PN#perl-}"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	|| ( =dev-lang/perl-5.34* ~perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV} )
+	dev-lang/perl:=
+	!<perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}
+	!>perl-core/${PN#perl-}-${PV}-r999
+"