Package app-i18n/ibus-1.5.3 requires libnotify> = 0.7.
Created attachment 355344 [details] app-i18n/ibus-1.5.3 build.log
Created attachment 355346 [details] emerge --info =app-i18n/ibus-1.5.3
!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-i18n/ibus-1.5.3/work/ibus-1.5.3/config.log Please attach that. The deps are already in place through dev-python/notify-python
Created attachment 355580 [details] config.log I can confirm this issue. (see my config.log) libnotify package is not installed as dependency.
Created attachment 355582 [details] emerge --info =app-i18n/ibus-1.5.3
Also seeing this. @jer: dependency on notify-python is only in ibus-1.4.x, it seems it has been dropped with the 1.5-update.
+ 06 Jan 2014; Naohiro Aota <naota@gentoo.org> ibus-1.5.2.ebuild, + ibus-1.5.3.ebuild, ibus-1.5.4-r1.ebuild: + Add missing dependency: x11-libs/libnotify #480168 ;Quote ${T}