diff --git a/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml b/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
index 74268e3abc..99f1fbb74c 100644
--- a/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
+++ b/local/recipes/kde/plasma-desktop/recipe.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,22 @@ done
 # yields invalid C++. Idempotent.
 python3 "${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/local/scripts/gate-kx11extras.py" "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"
 
+# BUILD_KCM_TABLET=OFF -- THIS REMOVES THE DRAWING-TABLET SETTINGS MODULE.
+#
+# kcms/tablet requires libwacom (CMakeLists.txt:175,
+# pkg_check_modules(LIBWACOM libwacom REQUIRED)), which is not ported: it needs
+# libgudev plus upstream's tablet-definition database. Without it configure
+# aborts outright:
+#   The following required packages were not found: - libwacom
+#
+# This is upstream's own option (CMakeLists.txt:44, default ON), not an
+# invented switch, and it gates exactly three sources -- tabletsmodel.cpp,
+# kcmtablet.cpp, tabletmoduledata.cpp. Everything else in plasma-desktop is
+# unaffected.
+#
+# Tracked for a real port; turn back ON in the same change that lands libwacom.
 cmake "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}" \
+    -DBUILD_KCM_TABLET=OFF \
     -DKF_SKIP_PO_PROCESSING=ON \
     -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/local/recipes/qt/redox-toolchain.cmake" \
     -DQT_HOST_PATH="${HOST_BUILD}" \