diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/Manifest b/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/Manifest
index 751912aadd1c..153c2d61ad46 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/Manifest
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 DIST gnome-control-center-44.0-patchset.tar.xz 6004 BLAKE2B a647cd83fe5d2283edc341afaa6d55661b905fea740729cf21679c3593e5e339aec507b835fd57c11d1fdde8db338b57ff8e24f464bb1296ad7a5bd1fb7319c3 SHA512 85cdcf4d55028550cfd871285729d265f1f8b74ec46ad656ada122f511ec617a21c5927923e4000f3a2d7ca08f49aafc28cecbd4ab840db377fa2d4054997b6f
 DIST gnome-control-center-44.1.tar.xz 7614988 BLAKE2B dd5b1b08b84a9efcec1a8b67b9253a02abb380b2b8182663b740eb59d00935a615352491ef259dcdbafdea4da3f78fc81be83146db5dad39a8e7bea17debd9b3 SHA512 5718ad42ddbe152bdd6a4fe223f31681d43bb265e19c8b3817c914e8259ea27b12430b243a3690e1b76a1b8c8f6c410f78d444dafca2b8ef93b4f7909b2119bc
+DIST gnome-control-center-44.2.tar.xz 7634312 BLAKE2B 17eccb9cb59a2963dd29eea748aefc5ec0d1756ec61ba516600ee848c61d2e2d98a69b244b6caee614a43bb38ffed95c22cf0022f7ea695965f5acc57365e558 SHA512 cec7d7cf6d5bb91f6b6eedf5bc0f8f380ce6df706d631d880f89f84736cb1621f41696903eb05eb67a4c306d092f37aa45324d381b80e20f0f736c2486682da1
 DIST gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo-dark.svg 14293 BLAKE2B 570e9326b8abe45849c31fd5cdb3fcfb1b2f18eac522f958928df5c3b747b0699f50a882f31cf7c0ae1f2138194f18596f738f42c942b57d340c53d46d82c551 SHA512 91227dafcf2091bb1568b0f9eec68b5e371ec64c9a6bc3605821f60d6bf2bd94dec0564f6a16a4a70d1db4d4df49fc25b6c910367bae3b85205cc609a9f2701b
 DIST gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo.svg 14288 BLAKE2B 371fc68b1015c8672db3e3858ae9077b1e3a9937e6add8690c39db36302ec031391c4d35e0c0b87094ca474a00c4187849e2d7111df34f43bc5bd7be52678527 SHA512 cf88933546de54ca15e2e830ac1086a78c4150f0ff59b8091e7e1cade5961c4e4cb83120a818a960b77841353ce3584ddc8f36b6edbde05543600283a143ad7b
diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center-44.2.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center-44.2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0859b7e34a50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-control-center/gnome-control-center-44.2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
+
+inherit gnome.org gnome2-utils meson python-any-r1 virtualx xdg
+
+DESCRIPTION="GNOME's main interface to configure various aspects of the desktop"
+HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center"
+SRC_URI+=" https://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/distfiles/${PN}-44.0-patchset.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI+=" https://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/distfiles/${PN}-gentoo-logo.svg"
+SRC_URI+=" https://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/distfiles/${PN}-gentoo-logo-dark.svg"
+# Logo is CC-BY-SA-2.5
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ CC-BY-SA-2.5"
+SLOT="2"
+IUSE="+bluetooth +cups debug elogind +gnome-online-accounts +ibus input_devices_wacom kerberos networkmanager systemd test wayland"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	^^ ( elogind systemd )
+" # Theoretically "?? ( elogind systemd )" is fine too, lacking some functionality at runtime, but needs testing if handled gracefully enough
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+
+# meson.build depends on python unconditionally
+BDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+
+# kerberos unfortunately means mit-krb5; build fails with heimdal
+# display panel requires colord and gnome-settings-daemon[colord]
+# wacom panel requires gsd-enums.h from gsd at build time, probably also runtime support
+# printer panel requires cups and smbclient (the latter is not patched yet to be separately optional)
+# First block is toplevel meson.build deps in order of occurrence (plus deeper deps if in same conditional). Second block is dependency() from subdir meson.builds, sorted by directory name occurrence order
+DEPEND="
+	gnome-online-accounts? (
+		x11-libs/gtk+:3
+		>=net-libs/gnome-online-accounts-3.25.3:=
+	)
+	>=media-libs/libpulse-2.0[glib]
+	>=gui-libs/gtk-4.9.3:4[X,wayland=]
+	>=gui-libs/libadwaita-1.2.0:1
+	>=sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.39
+	>=x11-misc/colord-0.1.34:0=
+	>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.23.0:2
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.75.0:2
+	gnome-base/gnome-desktop:4=
+	>=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-41.0[colord,input_devices_wacom?]
+	>=gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-42_alpha
+	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	>=sys-power/upower-0.99.8:=
+	>=dev-libs/libgudev-232
+	>=x11-libs/libX11-1.8
+	>=x11-libs/libXi-1.2
+	media-libs/libepoxy
+	app-crypt/gcr:0=
+	>=dev-libs/libpwquality-1.2.2
+	>=sys-auth/polkit-0.114
+	cups? (
+		>=net-print/cups-1.7[dbus]
+		>=net-fs/samba-4.0.0[client]
+	)
+	ibus? ( >=app-i18n/ibus-1.5.2 )
+	networkmanager? (
+		>=net-libs/libnma-1.10.2
+		>=net-misc/networkmanager-1.24.0[modemmanager]
+		>=net-misc/modemmanager-0.7.990:=
+	)
+	bluetooth? ( net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth:3= )
+	input_devices_wacom? ( >=dev-libs/libwacom-0.27:= )
+	kerberos? ( app-crypt/mit-krb5 )
+
+	x11-libs/cairo[glib]
+	>=x11-libs/colord-gtk-0.3.0:=
+	media-libs/fontconfig
+	gnome-base/libgtop:2=
+	>=sys-fs/udisks-2.1.8:2
+	app-crypt/libsecret
+	net-libs/gnutls:=
+	media-libs/gsound
+
+	x11-libs/pango
+"
+# media-libs/libcanberra[pulseaudio,sound] needed for Speaker tests in
+# Settings/Sound/Output/Output Device, bug #814110
+# systemd/elogind USE flagged because package manager will potentially try to satisfy a
+# "|| ( systemd ( elogind openrc-settingsd)" via systemd if openrc-settingsd isn't already installed.
+# libgnomekbd needed only for gkbd-keyboard-display tool
+# gnome-color-manager needed for gcm-calibrate and gcm-viewer calls from color panel
+# <gnome-color-manager-3.1.2 has file collisions with g-c-c-3.1.x
+#
+# mouse panel needs a concrete set of X11 drivers at runtime, bug #580474
+# Also we need newer driver versions to allow wacom and libinput drivers to
+# not collide
+#
+# system-config-printer provides org.fedoraproject.Config.Printing service and interface
+# cups-pk-helper provides org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.all-edit policykit helper policy
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	media-libs/libcanberra[pulseaudio,sound]
+	systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-31 )
+	elogind? (
+		app-admin/openrc-settingsd
+		sys-auth/elogind
+	)
+	x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme
+	>=gnome-extra/gnome-color-manager-3.1.2
+	cups? (
+		app-admin/system-config-printer
+		net-print/cups-pk-helper
+	)
+	>=gnome-base/libgnomekbd-3
+	wayland? ( dev-libs/libinput )
+	!wayland? (
+		>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.19.0
+		input_devices_wacom? ( >=x11-drivers/xf86-input-wacom-0.33.0 )
+	)
+"
+# PDEPEND to avoid circular dependency; gnome-session-check-accelerated called by info panel
+# gnome-session-2.91.6-r1 also needed so that 10-user-dirs-update is run at login
+PDEPEND=">=gnome-base/gnome-session-2.91.6-r1
+	networkmanager? ( gnome-extra/nm-applet )" # networking panel can call into nm-connection-editor
+
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.2
+	x11-base/xorg-proto
+	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	dev-util/gdbus-codegen
+	dev-util/glib-utils
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	test? (
+		$(python_gen_any_dep '
+			dev-python/python-dbusmock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		')
+		x11-apps/setxkbmap
+	)
+"
+
+PATCHES=(
+	# Patches from gnome-43 branch
+	# Makes some panels and dependencies optional
+	# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/686840, 697478, 700145
+	# Fix some absolute paths to be appropriate for Gentoo
+	"${WORKDIR}"/patches/
+)
+
+python_check_deps() {
+	use test || return 0
+	python_has_version "dev-python/python-dbusmock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
+}
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	xdg_environment_reset
+	# Mark python tests with shebang executable, so that meson will launch them directly, instead
+	# of via its own python-single-r1 version, which might not match what we get from python_check_deps
+	chmod a+x tests/network/test-network-panel.py tests/datetime/test-datetime.py || die
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_use bluetooth)
+		-Dcups=$(usex cups enabled disabled)
+		-Ddocumentation=true # manpage
+		-Dgoa=$(usex gnome-online-accounts enabled disabled)
+		$(meson_use ibus)
+		-Dkerberos=$(usex kerberos enabled disabled)
+		$(meson_use networkmanager network_manager)
+		-Dprivileged_group=wheel
+		-Dsnap=false
+		$(meson_use test tests)
+		$(meson_use input_devices_wacom wacom)
+		#$(meson_use wayland) # doesn't do anything in 3.34 and 3.36 due to unified gudev handling code
+		# bashcompletions installed to $datadir/bash-completion/completions by v3.28.2, which is the same as $(get_bashcompdir)
+		-Dmalcontent=false # unpackaged
+		-Ddistributor_logo=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo.svg
+		-Ddark_mode_distributor_logo=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo-dark.svg
+	)
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	virtx meson_src_test
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+	insinto /usr/share/pixmaps
+	doins "${DISTDIR}"/gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo.svg
+	doins "${DISTDIR}"/gnome-control-center-gentoo-logo-dark.svg
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_pkg_postinst
+	gnome2_schemas_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_pkg_postrm
+	gnome2_schemas_update
+}