subversion-freebsd dependencies

[Garrett Cooper]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 3:34 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> On a newly installed development machine I installed subversion-freebsd
> from ports and ended up with a huge dependency chain. Eventually I got
> the usual gnu-hell (auto-*, lib*), but also python27, tcl-8.5, perl-5.12
> and m4. This is a bit too much. The last four should not be required to
> check out the FreeBSD source tree. They also may conflict with newer
> versions one wants to have on a development machine (python3, perl6, ...).
> 
> Is there a way to cut this down a bit and just have a svn client with only
> the necessary stuff?

We're using an install method that's not recommended by the svn project, but the maintainer refuses to get on the supported track so we're stuck installing tcl and a few other things for subversion. Search for subversion in the closed prs for patches and more details..
-Garrett