svn status too verbose with externals

[J. David Blackstone]

  Today I took the mad step of using svn:externals to make my main work repository into a subdirectory of my main directory.  This is great, but now when I svn status I get:

X      employer

Performing status on external item at 'employer'

  I'd rather see nothing if there's nothing to report in the employer/ subdirectory.  Any way to achieve this?

jdb