diff --git a/app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5.ebuild b/app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5-r1.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5.ebuild
rename to app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5-r1.ebuild
index 47f92920b4b11..42bb1c0424116 100644
--- a/app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/libspelling/libspelling-0.4.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/${PN}/-/archive/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 LICENSE="LGPL-2.1+"
 SLOT="1"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="gtk-doc vala"
+IUSE="gtk-doc sysprof vala"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/glib:2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/icu:=
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	sysprof? ( dev-util/sysprof-capture:4 )
 	vala? (
 		$(vala_depend)
 		>=gui-libs/gtksourceview-5.6:5[vala]
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		-Denchant=enabled
 		-Dinstall-static=false
 		$(meson_use gtk-doc docs)
+		$(meson_use sysprof)
 		$(meson_use vala vapi)
 	)
 	meson_src_configure
diff --git a/app-text/libspelling/metadata.xml b/app-text/libspelling/metadata.xml
index c18e917f963c7..5b9ced8effedb 100644
--- a/app-text/libspelling/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/libspelling/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
     <email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <use>
+    <flag name="sysprof">Enable profiling data capture support using <pkg>dev-util/sysprof-capture</pkg></flag>
+  </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="gnome-gitlab">GNOME/libspelling</remote-id>
   </upstream>