Also, note that a user is likely to encounter this issue by clicking on
IBus Preferences in the Settings Manager, which silently fails. There is
no obvious indication that the failure has anything to do with Python at
all, much less a specific dependency missing in the local Python.
With the
I disagree that this solution is definitely not the way to go. Other
distros put it in their policy. See, for example, Debian's Python policy
section 2.4.2 (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-
policy/ch-python.html#s-interpreter_loc):
"The preferred specification for the Python 3
Public bug reported:
If a user has installed a local python3 (e.g. Anaconda) ibus-setup may
fail to run because of a missing library:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 31, in
from gi.repository import GLib
ImportError: No module named 'gi'
This
