Folks is a contact aggregation library. It retrieves contacts from various sources (including Telepathy IM accounts, and local contact stores) and compiles them into fully-fledged people objects. Important Note: The 'evolution-data-server' dependency and its related dependencies have generation of introspection and vala/vapi files disabled and must be switched on with the following environment variables: INTROSPECTION=yes VALA=yes VAPI=yes Folks will fail to build without introspection and vala/vapi support enabled in these dependencies.