diff --git a/dev-python/namespace-google/metadata.xml b/dev-python/namespace-google/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..266e3f19ca592
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/namespace-google/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/namespace-google/namespace-google-1.ebuild b/dev-python/namespace-google/namespace-google-1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1be3223ba74bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/namespace-google/namespace-google-1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_{4,5,6}} )
+inherit python-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Namespace package declaration for google"
+HOMEPAGE=""
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="public-domain"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+RDEPEND="dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	mkdir -p "${S}"/google || die
+	cat > "${S}"/google/__init__.py <<-EOF || die
+		__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
+	EOF
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	python_foreach_impl python_domodule google
+}