diff --git a/app-emacs/no-littering/Manifest b/app-emacs/no-littering/Manifest
index 55bfde82799de..cb81c9207b6f2 100644
--- a/app-emacs/no-littering/Manifest
+++ b/app-emacs/no-littering/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST no-littering-1.7.8.tar.gz 26239 BLAKE2B 92d9430f226c0940d7c3d22477ac4cc673a77538942dfe9a6eb4c41569abf8dc1630322e6a220f59bafff3afed94342ea194ac2cc2f63f27a3a6c7ac5db20ba8 SHA512 26f1d8072f8b712099e96f015eb05532396e1f1797e84efa38b0aec53cb4fc00e83ea843d284c5324719ee73b8e91d3823abafbab930d8f07e93d64f8349005d
+DIST no-littering-1.7.9.tar.gz 26324 BLAKE2B 02d3aa2b50cdbb1ab271d5a3f3b6b90437fd97ebd7f438d845cf2ec5ef106a6067b2bdcc7374d792e748c15acd1d47d861a046639dcd02dfb7f7733db7013b7f SHA512 b2c657736574352feb88bb57ba947626d1b3e72eb9ef13171cb9ec8fe1a6d9c2198f2c4f105e24edd6b2b706b00fc86b7ddfeecfaa181d9194cc795f9e852195
diff --git a/app-emacs/no-littering/no-littering-1.7.9.ebuild b/app-emacs/no-littering/no-littering-1.7.9.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4f3e84e2facf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emacs/no-littering/no-littering-1.7.9.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit elisp
+
+DESCRIPTION="ELisp library that helps keeping Emacs configuration directory clean"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering/"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *9999* ]] ; then
+	inherit git-r3
+
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/emacscollective/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/emacscollective/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=app-emacs/compat-30.0.2.0
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+"
+
+DOCS=( README.org migrate.org )
+SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo.el"