diff --git a/rapidsvn-0.12.0.ebuild b/rapidsvn-0.12.0.ebuild
index 3300e03..2483c6f 100644
--- a/rapidsvn-0.12.0.ebuild
+++ b/rapidsvn-0.12.0.ebuild
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 EAPI="2"
 
 WANT_AUTOCONF="2.5"
+WX_GTK_VER=2.8
 inherit versionator confutils libtool autotools wxwidgets flag-o-matic fdo-mime
 
 MY_PV=$(get_version_component_range 1-2)
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
 IUSE="doc"
 
 COMMON_DEP=">=dev-util/subversion-1.5.0
-	>=x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6
+	x11-libs/wxGTK:2.8[X]
 	>=dev-libs/apr-1.2.10
 	>=dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.10"
 
@@ -69,13 +70,6 @@ src_configure() {
 		    --without-doxygen --without-dot"
 	fi
 
-	local INST_WX=$(best_version x11-libs/wxGTK)
-	export WX_GTK_VER=$(get_version_component_range 1-2 \
-		        ${INST_WX/x11-libs\/wxGTK})
-
-	need-wxwidgets ansi
-	myconf="${myconf} --with-wx-config=${WX_CONFIG}"
-
 	append-flags $( /usr/bin/apr${apr_suffix}-config --cppflags )
 
 	econf	--with-svn-lib=/usr/$(get_libdir) \