Bug 951140

Summary:	mail-client/thunderbird-128.8.0 missed runtime dependency x11-libs/libnotify
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Михаил <spike>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Михаил 2025-03-10 21:16:12 UTC

mail-client/thunderbird-128.8.0 unable to show system notifications.

console error:
thunderbird[117245]: JavaScript error: resource:///modules/MailNotificationManager.sys.mjs, line 353: NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)

emerge libnotify fix the issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge thinderbird
2. verify x11-libs/libnotify is not installed
3. Enable system notification in thunderbird settings
Actual Results:  
Notifications are missing.

Expected Results:  
DE show notification from thunderbird

Comment 1 Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev

2025-03-11 16:51:31 UTC

It's already an "optfeature":
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/mail-client/thunderbird/thunderbird-128.8.0.ebuild#n1163
(or https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/mail-client/thunderbird/thunderbird-128.8.0.ebuild#L1163 if Gentoo's gitweb is being hammered by AI scrapers)

You can have portage sets called "optfeature" for example with comments what each dep is doing:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/sets

Since TB works fine without libnotify, it's not a mandatory dep - even though I'd see no harm doing it like that. But the next bug would be asking to remove it and make it optfeature. So it is the best solution we have right now.