diff --git a/gui-libs/wlroots/Manifest b/gui-libs/wlroots/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0501a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-libs/wlroots/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST wlroots-0.17.0.tar.gz 606172 BLAKE2B 00e5a8eec166e9ce8fbb1bc365deb5eaad66568b197239581e9bf21bec6d2b77d162daa8534057ed02a208ffb8895ea0f562dd1201e9e1ee4e72bfe63e1bbb0c SHA512 ca7314d7dca3ddac3e6970476b4145a0a2566a6632054f406c6e74ea7280a805cdf9b6972cca15c3170a5f41c83677768843b648b6b98ab6428e4ecde43aa4de
diff --git a/gui-libs/wlroots/files/0001-Revert-layer-shell-error-on-0-dimension-without-anch.patch b/gui-libs/wlroots/files/0001-Revert-layer-shell-error-on-0-dimension-without-anch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edda95e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-libs/wlroots/files/0001-Revert-layer-shell-error-on-0-dimension-without-anch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 4ec4c290b04c5c87ffb7b64e590477e3a58f8547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+Message-ID: <4ec4c290b04c5c87ffb7b64e590477e3a58f8547.1700567169.git.agx@sigxcpu.org>
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Guido=20G=C3=BCnther?= <agx@sigxcpu.org>
+Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 13:58:55 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Revert "layer-shell: error on 0 dimension without anchors"
+
+This reverts commit 8dec751a6d84335fb04288b8efab6dd5c90288d3.
+
+Revert this until phosh has a fixed release.
+---
+ types/wlr_layer_shell_v1.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/types/wlr_layer_shell_v1.c b/types/wlr_layer_shell_v1.c
+index 37256db6..2c722a79 100644
+--- a/types/wlr_layer_shell_v1.c
++++ b/types/wlr_layer_shell_v1.c
+@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ static void layer_surface_role_commit(struct wlr_surface *wlr_surface) {
+ 		return;
+ 	}
+ 
++#if 0
+ 	const uint32_t horiz = ZWLR_LAYER_SURFACE_V1_ANCHOR_LEFT |
+ 		ZWLR_LAYER_SURFACE_V1_ANCHOR_RIGHT;
+ 	if (surface->pending.desired_width == 0 &&
+@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ static void layer_surface_role_commit(struct wlr_surface *wlr_surface) {
+ 			"height 0 requested without setting top and bottom anchors");
+ 		return;
+ 	}
++#endif
+ 
+ 	if (surface->surface->unmap_commit) {
+ 		layer_surface_reset(surface);
+-- 
+2.42.0
+
diff --git a/gui-libs/wlroots/wlroots-0.17.0.ebuild b/gui-libs/wlroots/wlroots-0.17.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7663563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui-libs/wlroots/wlroots-0.17.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/${PN}/${PN}.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+	SLOT="0/9999"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/${PN}/${PN}/-/releases/${PV}/downloads/${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+	SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 2)"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+IUSE="liftoff +libinput +drm +session tinywl vulkan x11-backend xcb-errors X +phoc-patch"
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	drm? ( session )
+	libinput? ( session )
+	xcb-errors? ( || ( x11-backend X ) )
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/wayland-1.22.0
+	media-libs/libglvnd
+	media-libs/mesa[egl(+),gles2]
+	>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.114
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+	>=x11-libs/pixman-0.42.0
+	drm? (
+		media-libs/libdisplay-info
+		sys-apps/hwdata
+		liftoff? ( >=dev-libs/libliftoff-0.4 )
+	)
+	libinput? ( >=dev-libs/libinput-1.14.0:= )
+	session? (
+		sys-auth/seatd:=
+		virtual/libudev
+	)
+	vulkan? (
+		dev-util/glslang:=
+		dev-util/vulkan-headers
+		media-libs/vulkan-loader
+	)
+	xcb-errors? ( x11-libs/xcb-util-errors )
+	x11-backend? (
+		x11-libs/libxcb:=
+		x11-libs/xcb-util-renderutil
+	)
+	X? (
+		x11-libs/libxcb:=
+		x11-libs/xcb-util-wm
+		x11-base/xwayland
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/wayland-protocols-1.32
+	dev-util/wayland-scanner
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}"/0001-Revert-layer-shell-error-on-0-dimension-without-anch.patch )
+
+src_configure() {
+	local backends=(
+		$(usev drm)
+		$(usev libinput)
+		$(usev x11-backend 'x11')
+	)
+	local meson_backends=$(IFS=','; echo "${backends[*]}")
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_feature xcb-errors)
+		$(meson_use tinywl examples)
+		-Drenderers=$(usex vulkan 'gles2,vulkan' gles2)
+		$(meson_feature X xwayland)
+		-Dbackends=${meson_backends}
+		$(meson_feature session)
+	)
+
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+	dodoc docs/*
+
+	if use tinywl; then
+		dobin "${BUILD_DIR}"/tinywl/tinywl
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "You must be in the input group to allow your compositor"
+	elog "to access input devices via libinput."
+}