I am wondering what has happened to the darcs package -- it seems to have disappeared sometime between November 6, 2011, and today. I know I installed it on Nov. 6, 2011, and I believe it was from one of the standard repos like [community] or [extra].
From /var/log/pacman.log:
[2011-11-06 15:56] Running 'pacman -S ghc emacs-haskell-mode cabal-install darcs gnupg' ... [2011-11-06 16:00] installed darcs (2.5.2-1.1) Today, my installed version of darcs is still 2.5.2-1.1, but when I search for it darcs with pacman -- # pacman -Ss darcs gives no result, and likewise searching in the package database finds nothing -- http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=darcs The latest I can find any discussion about it on this mailing list is from Thomas Dziedzic on 2012-03-03, ending with this statement: "*There is no cabal-install or darcs version that is marked as stable and currently builds with ghc 7.4.1 These packages are statically linked so it shouldn't matter for now. I will be keeping an eye on these packages and waiting for upstream to provide new stable versions that builds against the latest ghc." That seems to mean that the package would remain a package, only it would not be updated for a while. But in fact my search results seem to show that it is no longer a package at all. Meanwhile, darcs 2.8 is available, and is supposed to support GHC 7.4.x: http://darcs.net/Releases/2.8 -- Gregory D. Weber, Ph. D. http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/ Associate Professor of Informatics Tel (765) 973-8420 Indiana University East FAX (765) 973-8550 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments