diff --git a/gui-apps/wayle/Manifest b/gui-apps/wayle/Manifest
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+DIST wayle-0.6.0-crates.tar.xz 49164096 BLAKE2B ffc034b381148b80147ee6e1379de2f8be3c50849e08e81a9ba3e4ab79e5c1dca3b7505f1a3f0c7237b86e7aec2b8eee9770ec9dec6b258f7457f455518fb102 SHA512 63310eaa336af405d0bf6e558823badefa5e946b1da9c558abe81d446558dfff6b07a6c7ba9090b35b75c823e7486b54fc2e33ab14cb6c55a0e8ace34128d315
+DIST wayle-0.6.0.tar.gz 6011771 BLAKE2B 5aedc30c5bab5d3e8d6872aefe923b9880c8318111b0e729f85c07d16e643e0e7280fe2e25778c37af07ea060654c3e295575543b7681c5c03341c06568fabdf SHA512 0350dfbc523f25569a236fd77f9c5f4b17cd89cdf183c738fe55a23c87561f6bbb443238801ec3d1e2f55e731beb4a1ad7a868586fd1fdadbae26cf1bf98c5f7
diff --git a/gui-apps/wayle/metadata.xml b/gui-apps/wayle/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<name>Jonas Frei</name>
+		<email>freijon@pm.me</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">wayle-rs/wayle</remote-id>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/wayle-rs/wayle/issues</bugs-to>
+	</upstream>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="settings">Build the settings GUI</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/gui-apps/wayle/wayle-0.6.0.ebuild b/gui-apps/wayle/wayle-0.6.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cargo desktop shell-completion systemd xdg
+
+RUST_MIN_VER="1.93.0"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A configurable desktop shell for Wayland compositors"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wayle.app"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/wayle-rs/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	https://github.com/gentoo-crate-dist/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-crates.tar.xz
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+# Dependent crate licenses
+LICENSE+="
+	Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0-with-LLVM-exceptions BSD-2 BSD CC0-1.0
+	CDLA-Permissive-2.0 GPL-3+ ISC MIT openssl Unicode-3.0 ZLIB
+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="+settings"
+
+BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
+DEPEND="
+	dev-db/sqlite:3=
+	gui-libs/gtk:4=[wayland]
+	gui-libs/gtk4-layer-shell
+	sci-libs/fftw
+	media-video/pipewire
+	media-libs/libpulse
+	virtual/libudev
+	settings? (
+		gui-libs/gtksourceview:5
+		media-libs/graphene
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	# high magic to allow system-libs
+	export LIBSQLITE3_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG=1
+	export PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS=1
+
+	default
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	cargo_src_install --path wayle
+	use settings && cargo_src_install --path crates/wayle-settings
+
+	local WAYLE_BIN="$(cargo_target_dir)/${PN}"
+
+	mkdir completions || die
+	for shell in bash fish zsh; do
+		${WAYLE_BIN} completions ${shell} > "completions/${PN}.${shell}" || die
+	done
+
+	newbashcomp "completions/${PN}.bash" "${PN}"
+	dofishcomp "completions/${PN}.fish"
+	newzshcomp "completions/${PN}.zsh" "_${PN}"
+
+	# Install module icons
+	insinto /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable
+	doins -r resources/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/
+
+	doicon -s scalable resources/wayle-settings.svg
+	domenu resources/com.wayle.settings.desktop
+
+	systemd_douserunit resources/wayle.service
+
+	local DOCS=(
+		README.md
+	)
+	local HTML_DOCS=(
+		docs/
+	)
+	einstalldocs
+}