diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avrdude/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avrdude/default.nix
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+args:
+with args.lib; with args;
+let
+  co = chooseOptionsByFlags {
+    inherit args;
+    flagDescr = {
+      mandatory ={ cfgOption = [ "--disable-dependency-tracking" ]; 
+                   buildInputs=["yacc" "flex"]; };
+      doc = { cfgOption = "--enable-doc"; buildInputs=["tetex"]; blocks=["doc" "because untested"]; }; #Enable building documents
+      no_parport = { cfgOption = "--disable-parport"; }; #Enable accessing parallel ports(default)
+    };
+    #defaultFlags = ["doc"];
+  };
+
+in args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+
+  # passing the flags in case a library using this want's to check them (*) .. 
+  inherit (co) /* flags */ buildInputs configureFlags;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+      url = http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/avrdude-5.4.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "bee4148c51ec95999d803cb9f68f12ac2e9128b06f07afe307d38966c0833b30";
+    };
+
+  name="avrdude-5.4";
+
+  meta = {
+    license = "GPL-2";
+    description = "AVR Downloader/UploaDEr";
+    homepage = http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude;
+  };
+}