The subversion ebuild lack an USE flags for installing subversion perl bindings. This prevent program like svk (http://svk.elixus.org/) to be installed without installing subversion by hand. How to generate and install subversion perl binding is documented in subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: Provide a perl USE flags, and install the perl binding when set.
I would also like to place a vote for this. I tried myself, but I cannot get a grip of the workings of the subversion ebuild, so I failed. An ebuild for svk would also be nice.
The latest subversion-ebuild does indeed react on the "perl" USE-flag and builds the perl-bindings so that perl finds them. I have yet to get svk working, but I don't think that it is a subversion problem. The problem is, that the subversion-ebuild fails building the perl-bindings unless the "python" USE-flag is also enabled. This is because swig is not requested for the perl-bindings even though it is needed.
Created attachment 27614 [details] subversion-1.0.1.ebuild Here's an ebuild that fixes it so that only USE="perl" is required for installing the Perl-bindings instead of USE="perl python".
Comment on attachment 27614 [details] subversion-1.0.1.ebuild While we're at it, we might just as well make this a new ebuild for 1.0.1. It seems to work as it is.
I just fixed the deps in 1.0.1, I'll do a cleanup of old ebuilds soon, but I've got a lot of other things to do.
Should be fixed for some time now
