I needed to check a postal address of a friend. What was my surprise when kaddressbook refused to display the contents of the location tab in contact details, saying something about a missing module and checking the installation - without any clue what exactly should I check, which module is missing. Looking for solution, I have found this problem has been discussed already in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895670 Emerging kdepim-addons fixed the problem for me too. And I also think that kdepim-addons should be added to kaddressbook dependency chain, at least conditionally via some comprehensible USE flag.
We won't introduce a USE flag for an optional runtime dependency for sure. On the other hand, not having postal addresses available in a contact software seems important enough to make it a permanent RDEPEND.
I also stumbled upon this bug. An addressbook without postal addresses is quite useless I guess, but kdepim-addons have their own dependencies as well. If nothing else, please include some merge-message so people can make sense out of this situaion. I for myself did a complete reinstall and just then found the Debian bug. Could have saved myself a lot of hassle. Please, whatever it will be, something needs to be done here.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=42e4d894a2933c33c87c8b4537c37c6abd205cac commit 42e4d894a2933c33c87c8b4537c37c6abd205cac Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-09-29 20:15:49 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-09-29 20:18:07 +0000 kde-apps/kaddressbook: Add warning if kdepim-addons is not installed In general, users expecting complete functionality are invited to use kde-apps/kdepim-meta. This warning won't hurt though. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/687986 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.76, Repoman-2.3.17 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-apps/kaddressbook/kaddressbook-19.08.49.9999.ebuild | 9 +++++++++ kde-apps/kaddressbook/kaddressbook-9999.ebuild | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)