diff --git a/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.0-r1.ebuild b/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.0-r1.ebuild
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+# 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="0.9.0"
+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 "${S}"/AUTHORS || die
+	rm -f "${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 "${S}"/variety.desktop
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_pkg_postinst
+	optfeature "displaying systray icon, without it, a classic tray icon will be used" dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_pkg_postrm
+}
diff --git a/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.0.ebuild b/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6146e044d2..0000000000
--- a/x11-apps/variety/variety-0.9.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,195 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
-
-inherit distutils-r1 xdg desktop
-
-MY_PV="0.9.0"
-MY_P="${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"
-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}]
-		')
-	)
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# Remove upstream documentation to avoid incorrect installation paths
-	rm -f README.md CONTRIBUTING.md AUTHORS || die
-	rm -f 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.
-	"${EPYTHON}" - <<'PY' || die
-from pathlib import Path
-p = Path("setup.py")
-text = p.read_text()
-
-replacements = {
-    "package_data={'variety': ['data/**', 'locale/**']},":
-        "package_data={},",
-    'package_data={"variety": ["data/**", "locale/**"]},':
-        'package_data={},',
-    "include_package_data=True,":
-        "include_package_data=False,",
-}
-
-for old, new in replacements.items():
-    text = text.replace(old, new)
-
-p.write_text(text)
-PY
-
-	# Silence deprecated PEP621 license table warning
-	"${EPYTHON}" - <<'PY' || die
-from pathlib import Path
-p = Path("pyproject.toml")
-text = p.read_text()
-text = text.replace(
-    'license = { text = "GPL-3.0-only" }',
-    'license = "GPL-3.0-only"'
-)
-p.write_text(text)
-PY
-
-	# Patch varietyconfig.py to make runtime data lookup use /usr/share/variety instead of package resources
-	"${EPYTHON}" - <<'PY' || die "Failed to patch varietyconfig.py"
-import re
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-
-p = Path("variety_lib/varietyconfig.py")
-text = p.read_text()
-
-text = text.replace('import importlib.resources', 'import os')
-
-pattern = r"def get_data_file.*?return str\(.*?\)\)"
-
-new_function = '''def get_data_file(*path_segments):
-    """Get the full path to a data file."""
-    return os.path.join("/usr/share/variety", *path_segments)'''
-
-text, count = re.subn(pattern, new_function, text, flags=re.DOTALL)
-
-if count == 0:
-	sys.exit("Error: Could not locate get_data_file() function in varietyconfig.py")
-
-p.write_text(text)
-PY
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	cd tests || die
-	PYTHONPATH="${S}:${PYTHONPATH}" \
-		"${EPYTHON}" -m unittest discover -p '[tT]est*.py' \
-		|| die "Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	distutils-r1_src_install
-
-	# Install Variety shared data directory
-	insinto /usr/share/variety
-	doins -r data/config data/ui data/media data/scripts || die
-
-	# Install desktop templates
-	doins \
-		data/variety-autostart.desktop.template \
-		data/variety-profile.desktop.template || die
-
-	# 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 ${po}"
-	done
-
-	# Install application icon
-	insinto /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
-	newins data/icons/scalable/apps/variety.svg variety.svg || die
-
-	# Install real desktop entry from upstream template
-	sed \
-		-e 's/^_Name=/Name=/' \
-		-e 's/^_Comment=/Comment=/' \
-		variety.desktop > "${T}/variety.desktop" || die
-
-	domenu "${T}/variety.desktop" || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] && ! has_version dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator; then
-		elog "Variety has an optional dependency on dev-libs/libayatana-appindicator."
-		elog "Without it, a classic tray icon will be used."
-	fi
-
-	xdg_desktop_database_update
-	xdg_icon_cache_update
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	xdg_desktop_database_update
-	xdg_icon_cache_update
-}