I'm running a server with very minimal use flags. My global 'berkdb' flag is disabled, but I enabled it on subversion specifically. After trying to compile subversion, it failed saying apr-utils needed to be compiled with berkdb support. Of course this makes sense, but perhaps the subversion ebuild should check for this? I recompiled apr-utils with +berkdb and it worked just fine.
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