I tried to install SVN and witnessed something slightly disturbing:

$ sudo pkg install developer/versioning/subversion
DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
web/browser/firefox                      37/38   6715/8829    56.8/62.6

I intend to run SVN on a lightweight zone.  So I go ahead and try to fetch
it from the ipkg repository, figuring it's a lot more convenient and better
than building it from source

Then, it wants me to install several, to be quite honest -useless- utilities
and programs that have nothing to do with subversion.  The worst example was
firefox. What on earth would I need firefox for, just to install subversion?

Surely there must be a way to circumvent some of these ridiculous
dependencies? E.g. something like NO_X11 setting in FreeBSD's ports and
binary package collection.

Thanks :-)
Torbjorn
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