diff --git a/srcpkgs/libopencv-python3 b/srcpkgs/libopencv-python3
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+opencv
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diff --git a/srcpkgs/libopencv-python3/template b/srcpkgs/libopencv-python3/template
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-# Template file for 'opencv'
-pkgname=opencv
-version=3.3.1
-revision=1
-build_style=cmake
-configure_args="-DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF -DWITH_OPENMP=ON
- -DWITH_OPENCL=ON -DENABLE_CXX11=ON"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config eigen"
-makedepends="ffmpeg-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel
- jasper-devel ocl-icd-devel libgomp-devel libopenexr-devel gtk+3-devel
- libgphoto2-devel gst-plugins-base1-devel openblas-devel"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
-homepage="http://opencv.org"
-license="3-clause-BSD"
-short_desc="Computer vision and machine learning software library"
-distfiles="https://github.com/opencv/${pkgname}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=5dca3bb0d661af311e25a72b04a7e4c22c47c1aa86eb73e70063cd378a2aa6ee
-
-post_install() {
-	vlicense LICENSE
-}
-
-libopencv_package() {
-	short_desc+=" - library files"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/lib/*.so.*
-	}
-}
-
-libopencv-devel_package() {
-	short_desc+=" - development files"
-	depends="libopencv>=${version}_${revision}"
-	pkg_install() {
-		vmove usr/include
-		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
-		vmove usr/lib/*.so
-		vmove usr/share/OpenCV
-	}
-}
-
-if [ -z "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-	# because python-numpy cannot be cross compiled
-	hostmakedepends+=" python-devel python3-devel"
-	makedepends+=" python-numpy python3-numpy"
-
-	libopencv-python_package() {
-		short_desc+=" - Python2 bindings"
-		depends="python-numpy"
-		pkg_install() {
-			vmove usr/lib/python2.7
-		}
-	}
-
-	libopencv-python3_package() {
-		short_desc+=" - Python3 bindings"
-		depends="python3-numpy"
-		pkg_install() {
-			vmove usr/lib/python3*
-		}
-	}
-fi
-