diff --git a/gui-apps/channel/Manifest b/gui-apps/channel/Manifest
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+++ b/gui-apps/channel/Manifest
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+DIST channel-0.5.0.tar.gz 29352 BLAKE2B b3efd2fa1e712b8f0cc657c3569c4e3157d1be354eb8bacca0c311f527a2483a16ae99d58cf4dd87d744917d2ed19e1e9e8a91be8ae9d42be0e0708a3e085548 SHA512 b364c586ec2ab8bc46514ba4bebe0e515cb1c8beca0013cc90f8073b99e9658c192c4c290030edb1939e9c0086926681870689e737dd829578cf636ffd826b0c
+DIST tributary-0.4.1-tqCfWzbUAACWcbClrEM-xQIfPNogwri6nGNyWrt123vK.tar.gz 26108 BLAKE2B ced9a9780b50bf332d6135d1d81115d553303aa1fda3cf553630cd05062076fa0a3cf1865c77327231e549fca5f60ef241da93c2d222799d2e9010dd40eb1d9e SHA512 acab416dd7194d306171ae8aa92d66c5a6be08eaa0b3ff215faeae37e6bc177538d8e2ee7827fd8932b4f320931220b94bfe0ce6cbb12ba55b81642168a5da73
+DIST wayland-0.6.0-lQa1kqz8AQADQmdNJsNhLoNHcnEGEUjrOaPV-dtEnEmX.tar.gz 150022 BLAKE2B 7907311b3b54a1a15ff454906b379a4ce084be58295cd70c691277dfac9306365960dd97048de59bef5cfe48b8495ea1b381469a9ec2e021a17d78d29354ab3d SHA512 ef495b505e2b390cd49b774b69c63a8e98e0c172122728e00bba6d25b5bd03344961e1704491b5265a5f3d6ad15f78c280ddb34f96599ed82965726ad1dadbdf
diff --git a/gui-apps/channel/channel-0.5.0.ebuild b/gui-apps/channel/channel-0.5.0.ebuild
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+++ b/gui-apps/channel/channel-0.5.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+EAPI=8
+
+DESCRIPTION="A flexible demon to provide live input configuration for river"
+HOMEPAGE="https://codeberg.org/Sivecano/channel"
+
+declare -g -r -A ZBS_DEPENDENCIES=(
+	[tributary-0.4.1-tqCfWzbUAACWcbClrEM-xQIfPNogwri6nGNyWrt123vK.tar.gz]='https://codeberg.org/Sivecano/libtributary/archive/0.5.0.tar.gz'
+	[wayland-0.6.0-lQa1kqz8AQADQmdNJsNhLoNHcnEGEUjrOaPV-dtEnEmX.tar.gz]='https://codeberg.org/ifreund/zig-wayland/archive/v0.6.0.tar.gz'
+)
+
+ZIG_SLOT="0.16"
+inherit zig
+
+SRC_URI="
+	https://codeberg.org/Sivecano/channel/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz
+	${ZBS_DEPENDENCIES_SRC_URI}
+"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
+
+LICENSE="AGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/wayland
+	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
+"
+
+BDEPEND="
+	>=gui-wm/river-0.4.0
+	dev-libs/wayland-protocols
+"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local my_zbs_args=(
+		-Dstrip=false # portage handles this
+	)
+
+	zig_src_configure
+}
diff --git a/gui-apps/channel/metadata.xml b/gui-apps/channel/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>Sivecano@gmail.com</email>
+		<name>Sivecano</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="codeberg">Sivecano/rhine</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>