For some reason the speech useflag got dropped from kdepim-runtime and kpimtextedit (but not from many other KDE packages) causing an unconditional dependency on qtspeech. This in turn leads to multiple speech output related processes to get started in the KDE session even if the user never asked for speech output to be enabled. The fix is simply to guard the qtspeech dependency with a speech useflag.
Unfortunately, upstream does require it unconditionally require it now so we are forced to follow. Sample upstream commit: https://cgit.kde.org/kdepim-runtime.git/commit/?id=2be667f83d4f6e29883596160133d7a79d1d7c1c
It will be back in 21.12. https://invent.kde.org/pim/kdepim-runtime/-/commit/f7bac15b097965ae57b4a7f48095f91de67c6c42
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=2fb145fd9132c0f3cc589c8030eda8f536a45812 commit 2fb145fd9132c0f3cc589c8030eda8f536a45812 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-11-15 15:29:06 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-11-15 19:01:09 +0000 kde-apps/kdepim-runtime: Re-add IUSE speech Upstream commit f7bac15b097965ae57b4a7f48095f91de67c6c42 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/680534 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.28, Repoman-3.0.3 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-apps/kdepim-runtime/kdepim-runtime-9999.ebuild | 5 +++-- kde-apps/kdepim-runtime/metadata.xml | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)