Install this version:
emerge -a =x11-apps/variety-0.9.0
If this version is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:
autounmask =x11-apps/variety-0.9.0
Or alternatively:
emerge --autounmask-write -a =x11-apps/variety-0.9.0
# 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 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
}
Manage flags for this package:
euse -i <flag> -p x11-apps/variety |
euse -E <flag> -p x11-apps/variety |
euse -D <flag> -p x11-apps/variety
$(python_gen_cond_dep ' dev-python/beautifulsoup4[${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]
sys-devel/gettext test? ( $(python_gen_cond_dep ' dev-python/pylint[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] ') )
| Type | File | Size | Source URLs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIST | variety-0.9.0.tar.gz | 738943 bytes | https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/archive/refs/tags/0.9.0.tar.gz |