diff --git a/app-emacs/meson-mode/files/50meson-mode-gentoo.el b/app-emacs/meson-mode/files/50meson-mode-gentoo.el
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e1a3b4991dab1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emacs/meson-mode/files/50meson-mode-gentoo.el
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+(add-to-list 'load-path "@SITELISP@")
+(autoload 'meson-mode "meson-mode"
+  "Major mode for editing Meson build-system files" t)
+(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/meson\\(\\.build\\|_options\\.txt\\)\\'" . meson-mode))
diff --git a/app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2.ebuild b/app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 93%
rename from app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2.ebuild
rename to app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2-r1.ebuild
index ff33748c1148a..4280da2700013 100644
--- a/app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2.ebuild
+++ b/app-emacs/meson-mode/meson-mode-0.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
 DOCS=( README.md )
+
+SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo.el"