The author said in FAQ that it is possible to remove gnome-python depends, just add --enable-pyconf when compiling, then ibus will build a built-in pygconf module. I tried and succeeded. So I think it is needed to add gconf USE flag to the ebuild file. FAQ(in Chinese): http://code.google.com/p/ibus/wiki/FAQCN Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
It is wrong way to use internal pygconf. It should be use external pygconf in gentoo policy. And I set '|| ( dev-pyton/gconf-python dev-python/gnome-python )' to DEPEND. no needed to install gnome-python. Since >=ibus-1.1.0, pygconf is no longer needed. so I set this bug to WONTFIX.