diff --git a/acct-group/yacy/yacy-0.ebuild b/acct-group/yacy/yacy-0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4425f54be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/acct-group/yacy/yacy-0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit acct-group
+
+ACCT_GROUP_ID=-1
+DESCRIPTION="Group for net-misc/yacy"
diff --git a/net-misc/yacy/yacy-1.924.20210209.10069.ebuild b/net-misc/yacy/yacy-1.924.20210209.10069.ebuild
index b85b112cf2..4b9f73599f 100644
--- a/net-misc/yacy/yacy-1.924.20210209.10069.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/yacy/yacy-1.924.20210209.10069.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 IUSE="systemd +openrc"
 
-DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.8"
+DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.8
+        acct-group/yacy"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
 S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"