diff --git a/gui-wm/wayback/Manifest b/gui-wm/wayback/Manifest
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+DIST wayback-0.1.tar.bz2 21674 BLAKE2B 4e4403ad1b5f3dfb21912cdb069c5b21600f1e1aff5827dd7da84ab6601dfc6a6495c9c7d59ebb6916eaab47fed66c9e9187c2f10d8dab41cbd433b6be5ab608 SHA512 be51626e66a3e016a7e802c28d56e643c1d46cc3cb3a1f1ff6d15778c5d6888c47dd762f75c1053e70b4b5e1decee2ef2b27ceea187f791c663efa1660ccbc60
diff --git a/gui-wm/wayback/metadata.xml b/gui-wm/wayback/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">
+		<email>rose@pinkro.se</email>
+		<name>Rose</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer which allows for running full X11
+		desktop environments using Wayland components.
+		It is intended to eventually replace the classic X.Org server,
+		thus reducing maintenance burden of X11 applications.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="freedesktop-gitlab">wayback/wayback</remote-id>
+		<bugs-to>https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback/-/issues</bugs-to>
+		<doc>https://wayback.freedesktop.org/docs/</doc>
+		<changelog>https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/</changelog>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/gui-wm/wayback/wayback-0.1.ebuild b/gui-wm/wayback/wayback-0.1.ebuild
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+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="X11 compatibility layer levaraging wlroots and Xwayland"
+HOMEPAGE="https://wayback.freedesktop.org"
+
+SRC_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/${PN}/-/archive/${PV}/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="+man"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=gui-libs/wlroots-0.18.0
+	>=x11-base/xwayland-24.1.8
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	>=dev-libs/wayland-1.20.0
+	>=x11-libs/libxkbcommon-1.5.0:0=
+"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/wayland-protocols-1.24
+	>=dev-build/meson-0.60.0
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+BDEPEND+="man? ( >=app-text/scdoc-1.9.3 )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_feature man generate_manpages)
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}