diff --git a/dev-python/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-3.7.2-macOS_no-Cocoa.patch b/dev-python/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-3.7.2-macOS_no-Cocoa.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3f29134be621e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-3.7.2-macOS_no-Cocoa.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Do not automatically build against Cocoa on macOS.
+
+At Prefix/macOS, we do not support the propietary Cocoa SDK.  GUI
+applications use X11.
+
+The patch is specific to our need and not forwarded upstream.
+
+Signed-off-by: Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>
+
+Index: matplotlib-3.7.2/setup.py
+===================================================================
+--- matplotlib-3.7.2.orig/setup.py
++++ matplotlib-3.7.2/setup.py
+@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ mpl_packages = [
+     setupext.FreeType(),
+     setupext.Qhull(),
+     setupext.Tests(),
+-    setupext.BackendMacOSX(),
+     ]
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/dev-python/matplotlib/matplotlib-3.7.2.ebuild b/dev-python/matplotlib/matplotlib-3.7.2.ebuild
index 6bf2c0bcf4815..213f165a0cc5b 100644
--- a/dev-python/matplotlib/matplotlib-3.7.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/matplotlib/matplotlib-3.7.2.ebuild
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SRC_URI+="
 # Fonts: BitstreamVera, OFL-1.1
 LICENSE="BitstreamVera BSD matplotlib MIT OFL-1.1"
 SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~arm64-macos ~x64-macos"
 IUSE="cairo doc excel examples gtk3 latex qt5 tk webagg wxwidgets"
 
 # internal copy of pycxx highly patched
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ python_prepare_all() {
 	local PATCHES=(
 		"${FILESDIR}"/matplotlib-3.3.3-disable-lto.patch
 		"${FILESDIR}"/matplotlib-3.7.1-test.patch
+		"${FILESDIR}"/matplotlib-3.7.2-macOS_no-Cocoa.patch
 	)
 
 	sed \