diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
index 4f3f2146b7..579968e85c 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ class SubversionDownloadStrategy <AbstractDownloadStrategy
     args << '-q' unless ARGV.verbose?
     safe_system *args
   end
+
+  # currently only used by mplayer.rb
+  def svn
+    '/usr/bin/svn'
+  end
 end
 
 class GitDownloadStrategy <AbstractDownloadStrategy