diff --git a/evince.be0 b/evince.be0
index 0b456e6e7..24dacac3b 100755
--- a/evince.be0
+++ b/evince.be0
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env beesh
 
-# BEE_VERSION evince-3.35.1-0
+# BEE_VERSION evince-40.4-0
 
-# requires:
-# bee update json-glib-1.4.4-0
-# bee update appstream-glib-0.7.16-0
+# 2021-11-16: not going 41.2 yet. use 40.4 as BLFS
 
-BEE_BUILDTYPE=configure
-
-SRCURL[0]="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/${PKGVERSION[2]}/evince-${PKGVERSION}.tar.xz"
+# SRCURL[0]="https://download-fallback.gnome.org/sources/evince/${PKGVERSION[1]}/evince-${PKGVERSION}.tar.xz"
+SRCURL[0]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/bf78a8e8c384bbd2780b7be0ac917e79/evince-40.4.tar.xz"
 
 # PATCHURL+=()
 
@@ -20,51 +17,31 @@ SRCURL[0]="https://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/${PKGVERSION[2]}/evince-${P
 #    bee_extract "${@}"
 #}
 
-#mee_patch() {
-#    bee_patch "${@}"
-#}
+mee_patch() {
+    bee_patch "${@}"
+    echo "">po/LINGUAS
+}
 
 mee_configure() {
-    #PS1='xxx ' bash -norc
+
     bee_configure \
-        --disable-browser-plugin \
-        --disable-libgnome-desktop \
-        --disable-maintainer-mode \
-        --disable-nautilus \
-        --disable-nls \
-        --disable-schemas-compile \
-        --disable-static \
-        --disable-thumbnailer \
-        --enable-comics \
-        --enable-dbus \
-        --enable-djvu \
-        --enable-introspection \
-        --enable-multimedia \
-        --enable-pdf \
-        --enable-previewer \
-        --enable-ps \
-        --enable-t1lib \
-        --enable-tiff \
-        --enable-viewer \
-        --enable-xps \
-        --with-gtk-unix-print \
-        --with-platform=gnome \
-        --without-keyring
+        -Dgtk_doc=false \
+        -Duser_doc=false \
+        -Dnautilus=false \
+        -Dthumbnail_cache=disabled \
+        -Dkeyring=disabled \
+        -Dsystemduserunitdir=no \
+        --wrap-mode=nofallback
+
 }
 
 #mee_build() {
 #    bee_build
 #}
 
-#mee_install() {
-#    bee_install
-#}
+mee_install() {
+    bee_install
 
-mee_install_post() {
     mv -v ${D}${DATAROOTDIR}/applications/{org.gnome.Evince-previewer,evince-previewer}.desktop
     mv -v ${D}${DATAROOTDIR}/applications/{org.gnome.Evince,evince}.desktop
-    for i in  bg  ca  cs  da  de  el  en_GB  es  eu  fi  fr  gl  hu  id  it  ja  ko  lv  nl  oc  pl  pt_BR  ro  ru  sl  sr  sv  te  uk  vi  zh_CN  zh_HK  zh_TW; do
-        rm -rf ${D}/usr/share/help/${i}
-    done
 }
-