Can I persuade the cabal-install maintainer? I'm using the new darcs-2.5 Cheers Christian maeder@denebola:~/haskell> darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/ Converting old-fashioned repository to hashed format... ******************************************************************************* Fetching a hashed repository would be faster. Perhaps you could persuade the maintainer to run darcs optimize --upgrade with darcs 2.4.0 or higher? *******************************************************************************