It needs it Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -av ibus Actual Results: It installs ibus without dbus-python Expected Results: it should install dbus-python
A slight correction: at most, only ibus[deprecated] needs dbus-python.
I had a bug-report in ibus and they wanted to know the installed dbus-python version so i was expecting that its an needed dependency. But yes, most likely, at most, ibus[deprecated] needs that dep.