diff --git a/dev-lang/vala/Manifest b/dev-lang/vala/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-lang/vala/Manifest
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+DIST vala-0.19.0.tar.xz 2617496 SHA256 7781c8cb5416c10ba53ccf6b216966ba864fee71bb26d23ffaef29cb2011c5ee SHA512 8794ab66fae186f288a8606fab36d12bd58a82c366a1268ebdc87531d5fa6c3dc3a2797a2870fe78b9ac8b48c01cda81ddd48de94c648e99654594743b5d22e2 WHIRLPOOL 9595801cbffaa530528635bc922200828de05a29d97ecd8e0e126b3d7e44186bab31d5551a1bbc5197e901a7e4ffef46c246bae24f574fb7b8cb19d69942dba5
+EBUILD vala-0.19.0.ebuild 914 SHA256 1824667933ae568934b977398c16481ba8570f27fd376056083957996dcb11e1 SHA512 6acdd58d3608a9d49e3f38af474285390a15dca75795effd31850988a016138df0fed9190e9a526d92a509062b2e15155e3560fbb165af177ed02b42472ac578 WHIRLPOOL 6373b1e760d02d0b0c9e7086c4314d4825ff609f5d58c0c898508020881dd5bcc578f4bfe4da8d9ba2c45aeaed1cd0e6204c98e773a949b37f30848036c51cc2
diff --git a/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.19.0.ebuild b/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.19.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c6f3dd9
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+++ b/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.19.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/vala/vala-0.19.0.ebuild,v 1.2 2013/02/21 18:40:06 zmedico Exp $
+
+EAPI="4"
+GCONF_DEBUG="no"
+GNOME2_LA_PUNT="yes"
+
+inherit gnome2
+
+DESCRIPTION="Vala - Compiler for the GObject type system"
+HOMEPAGE="http://live.gnome.org/Vala"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0.19"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~arm-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="test +vapigen"
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/glib-2.18:2
+	>=dev-libs/vala-common-${PV}"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	!${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	sys-devel/flex
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	virtual/yacc
+	test? (
+		dev-libs/dbus-glib
+		>=dev-libs/glib-2.26:2 )"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	DOCS="AUTHORS ChangeLog MAINTAINERS NEWS README"
+	G2CONF="${G2CONF}
+		--disable-unversioned
+		$(use_enable vapigen)"
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/vala-common/Manifest b/dev-libs/vala-common/Manifest
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index 00000000..e5cd7236
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/vala-common/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+DIST vala-0.19.0.tar.xz 2617496 SHA256 7781c8cb5416c10ba53ccf6b216966ba864fee71bb26d23ffaef29cb2011c5ee SHA512 8794ab66fae186f288a8606fab36d12bd58a82c366a1268ebdc87531d5fa6c3dc3a2797a2870fe78b9ac8b48c01cda81ddd48de94c648e99654594743b5d22e2 WHIRLPOOL 9595801cbffaa530528635bc922200828de05a29d97ecd8e0e126b3d7e44186bab31d5551a1bbc5197e901a7e4ffef46c246bae24f574fb7b8cb19d69942dba5
+EBUILD vala-common-0.19.0.ebuild 2614 SHA256 bc3271e2ae1e08b864805f76bdb440334d17b8ad5bd1a7777561275102aab863 SHA512 ca7c70d62d73e0f5d5648f823870679bf6336b5ecdc3e0c32cd8120a81ec5f3892e8576956775310ea6d2f8881bd203d9769143e00fb43bcdffe7be8b478b964 WHIRLPOOL f7a1ff4ae6340760b21d4c1737954762269d1bce81fd43805d3aa813148eea20ed122a8064f62e4cb761d8e5dacab1e2da8e170c17e3efe7079deac66ad23924
diff --git a/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.19.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.19.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c269f98a
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+++ b/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.19.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/vala-common/vala-common-0.19.0.ebuild,v 1.2 2013/02/18 01:24:02 zmedico Exp $
+
+EAPI="4"
+GNOME_ORG_MODULE="vala"
+
+inherit gnome.org
+
+DESCRIPTION="Build infrastructure for packages that use Vala"
+HOMEPAGE="http://live.gnome.org/Vala"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~x64-macos"
+IUSE=""
+
+# Previously ${PN} was part of dev-lang/vala
+RDEPEND="!<dev-lang/vala-0.10.4-r2
+	!<dev-lang/vala-0.12.1-r1:0.12
+	!<dev-lang/vala-0.14.2-r2:0.14
+	!<dev-lang/vala-0.16.1-r2:0.16
+	!<dev-lang/vala-0.17.5:0.19"
+DEPEND=""
+
+src_configure() { :; }
+
+src_compile() { :; }
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/share/aclocal
+	doins vala.m4 vapigen/vapigen.m4
+	insinto /usr/share/vala
+	doins vapigen/Makefile.vapigen
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# Hack to prevent alternatives_auto_makesym in previously installed
+	# dev-lang/vala's pkg_postrm from overwriting vala-common's files
+	if has_version '<dev-lang/vala-0.10.4-r2:0.10' && [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-10.m4" ]]; then
+		ebegin "Removing old vala-0.10 macros"
+		rm "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-18.m4" &> /dev/null
+		eend $?
+	fi
+	if has_version '<dev-lang/vala-0.12.1-r1:0.12' && [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-12.m4" ]]; then
+		ebegin "Removing old vala-0.12 macros"
+		rm "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-12.m4" &> /dev/null
+		eend $?
+	fi
+	if has_version '<dev-lang/vala-0.14.2-r2:0.14' && [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-14.m4" ]]; then
+		ebegin "Removing old vala-0.14 macros"
+		rm "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-14.m4" &> /dev/null
+		eend $?
+	fi
+	if has_version '<dev-lang/vala-0.16.1-r2:0.16' && [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-16.m4" ]]; then
+		ebegin "Removing old vala-0.16 macros"
+		rm "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-14.m4" &> /dev/null
+		eend $?
+		if [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/vala-0.16/Makefile.vapigen" ]]; then
+			ebegin "Removing old vala-0.16 makefile template"
+			rm "${EROOT}usr/share/vala-0.16/Makefile.vapigen" &> /dev/null
+			eend $?
+		fi
+	fi
+	if has_version '<dev-lang/vala-0.17.5:0.18' && [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-18.m4" ]]; then
+		ebegin "Removing old vala-0.18 macros"
+		rm "${EROOT}usr/share/aclocal/vala-0-12.m4" &> /dev/null
+		eend $?
+		if [[ -f "${EROOT}usr/share/vala-0.18/Makefile.vapigen" ]]; then
+			ebegin "Removing old vala-0.18 makefile template"
+			rm "${EROOT}usr/share/vala-0.18/Makefile.vapigen" &> /dev/null
+			eend $?
+		fi
+	fi
+}