diff --git a/x11-apps/variety/Manifest b/x11-apps/variety/Manifest
index e2d7cd8a4f..1e64cb53cc 100644
--- a/x11-apps/variety/Manifest
+++ b/x11-apps/variety/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST variety-0.9.0.tar.gz 738943 BLAKE2B 4992e1709bc631a8dd969ecc279dd38e0ee936f853e31ef1a05ca9ecff7bab052e6ad7a9a388e1264b432eb7851238d1ecd460d0eb8643d037cb481c09016f9e SHA512 ccb76b7d5c378b1e38373e5072a669b065a08f573070b464ac6bf5e47fae048a31a58d0b4fd8647d0dcd9321935b91931605a2ee2c3b6629118450a0bf37d4ed
+DIST variety-0.9.1.tar.gz 752523 BLAKE2B d52ffd6ae9f1b57534c3aa36ae09b1f394ca5b330a43c24cea4eb0d2f6136147fd413eb5191bf2c846b662a1e7c9c18c843e83c8e0fd8e701ac0abe488c2c76b SHA512 ea07bb82d2398f3602459439dcdb0f27b26c18d5771f21c3d2e24547aa2f0a4abbde7098d1b204bd013084a47877eaad2e6a668acfb48c34a6703b3efe467b26
diff --git a/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.1.ebuild b/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..132ecb46fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
+
+inherit desktop distutils-r1 optfeature xdg
+
+MY_PV="0.9.1"
+MY_P="${PN}-${MY_PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Wallpaper downloader and manager for Linux systems"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/varietywalls/variety"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/archive/refs/tags/${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${MY_P}.tar.gz"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+IUSE="test"
+#RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+RESTRICT="test"
+PROPERTIES="test_network"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/configobj[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/httplib2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/packaging[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pillow[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pycurl[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pygobject:3[${PYTHON_USEDEP},cairo]
+		dev-python/requests[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+
+	media-gfx/imagemagick
+	media-libs/gexiv2[introspection]
+	x11-libs/gtk+:3[introspection]
+	x11-libs/libnotify[introspection]
+"
+# Trim RDEPEND from legacy versions
+# net-libs/webkit-gtk[introspection]
+# x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2[introspection]
+# x11-libs/pango[introspection]
+
+BDEPEND="
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	test? (
+		$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+			dev-python/pylint[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		')
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests unittest
+
+python_test() {
+	eunittest -s tests -p '[tT]est*.py'
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# cleanup upstream GitHub artifacts to avoid incorrect installation paths
+	rm -f "${S}"/README.md "${S}"/CONTRIBUTING.md "${S}"/AUTHORS || die
+
+	# changes.txt is required for preference -> changelog
+	#rm -f "${S}"/data/ui/changes.txt || die
+
+	# variety requires this file; distutils-r1 does not generate it
+	cat > variety_lib/variety_build_settings.py <<-EOF || die
+__variety_data_directory__ = '/usr/share/variety'
+EOF
+
+	# patch setup.py robustly so setuptools does not try to package
+	# variety/data and trigger namespace/package QA warnings.
+	sed -i -e '/package_data={/,/}/ { /package_data={/!d; s/$/},/ }' \
+		-e 's/include_package_data=True,/include_package_data=False,/g' "${S}"/setup.py || die
+
+	# silence deprecated PEP621 license table warning
+	sed -i -e 's/license = { text = "GPL-3.0-only" }/license = "GPL-3.0-only"/' "${S}"/pyproject.toml || die
+
+	# patch varietyconfig.py to make runtime data lookup use /usr/share/variety instead of package resources
+	sed -i -e 's@import importlib\.resources@import os@' -e '/pkg_files_root = importlib/,/return str(/ {
+		/pkg_files_root = importlib/d
+		s@return str(.*@return os.path.join("/usr/share/variety", *path_segments)@
+	}' "${S}"/variety_lib/varietyconfig.py || die
+
+	# make real desktop entry from upstream template
+	sed -i -e 's/^_Name=/Name=/' -e 's/^_Comment=/Comment=/' "${S}"/variety.desktop || die
+
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	distutils-r1_src_install
+
+	# install Variety shared data directory
+	insinto /usr/share/variety
+	doins -r "${S}"/data/config "${S}"/data/ui "${S}"/data/media "${S}"/data/scripts
+
+	# install desktop templates
+	doins "${S}"/data/variety-autostart.desktop.template
+	doins "${S}"/data/variety-profile.desktop.template
+
+	# compile and install translations from po/*.po
+	local po lang
+	for po in po/*.po; do
+		[[ -f ${po} ]] || continue
+		lang=${po##*/}
+		lang=${lang%.po}
+
+		dodir /usr/share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES || die
+		msgfmt "${po}" -o "${ED}/usr/share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES/variety.mo" || die "msgfmt failed for ${po}"
+	done
+
+	# install application icon
+	doicon -s scalable "${S}"/data/icons/scalable/apps/variety.svg
+
+	# install desktop entry
+	domenu "${S}"/variety.desktop
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_pkg_postinst
+	optfeature "displaying systray icon, without it, a classic tray icon will be used" dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_pkg_postrm
+}