diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
index f1a364f9096..cb42d959d12 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, substituteAll, fetchurl, runCommand, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, gettext, makeWrapper, pkgconfig
 , vala, wrapGAppsHook, dbus, dconf ? null, glib, gdk_pixbuf, gobject-introspection, gtk2
-, gtk3, gtk-doc, isocodes, python3, json-glib, libnotify ? null, enablePythonLibrary ? true
+, gtk3, gtk-doc, isocodes, python3, json-glib, libnotify ? null, enablePython2Library ? false
 , enableUI ? true, withWayland ? false, libxkbcommon ? null, wayland ? null
 , buildPackages, runtimeShell }:
 
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     (enableFeature (dconf != null) "dconf")
     (enableFeature (libnotify != null) "libnotify")
     (enableFeature withWayland "wayland")
-    (enableFeature enablePythonLibrary "python-library")
+    (enableFeature enablePython2Library "python-library")
+    (enableFeature enablePython2Library "python2") # XXX: python2 library does not work anyway
     (enableFeature enableUI "ui")
     "--with-unicode-emoji-dir=${emojiData}"
     "--with-emoji-annotation-dir=${cldrEmojiAnnotation}/share/unicode/cldr/common/annotations"