I’ve read the discussion that ends with an email[1] by Nathan Hartman expressing support for enabling the feature but disabling it by default in configuration. Hence I think it would be reasonable to wait for a new release addressing it. In the meantime users can define their own package variant with this configure flag added. It doesn’t need to be changed in Guix itself, because this only affects users of the package, not other packages that have subversion as an input. So it’s enough to add a new leaf package. As a compromise I think it would be acceptable to add a separate subversion-plaintext (or whatever) package variant, which will be superseded by the official subversion package as soon as a new release is made. [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/202110.mbox/%3cCAJT2EHr7wBfMdg0df7hEnv9+JedcjRkFCzP+q21=dvcWrPv84Q@mail.gmail.com%3e -- Ricardo