# Install darcs with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman Distributed version control system that tracks changes, via Haskell. Version 2.18.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:darcs ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install darcs ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install darcs ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/darcs/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add darcs ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darcs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install darcs ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: darcs from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install darcs ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: darcs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#darcs ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: darcs from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S darcs ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: darcs from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:darcs - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.18.5 - **Source summary:** Distributed version control system that tracks changes, via Haskell - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - darcs (cli) - darcs (alias) ## Dependencies - gmp ## Build dependencies - cabal-install - ghc ## Uses from macOS - libffi - ncurses ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 2.18.5 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://darcs.net/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Darcs is a free, open-source distributed version control system written in Haskell and known for modeling work as patches rather than repository snapshots. ### Project history The Darcs site contrasts Darcs with Git, Mercurial, and Subversion by emphasizing changes instead of snapshots. Its documentation and talks center on patch theory, commute behavior, and a contributor flow built around screened and reviewed repositories. ### Adoption history Darcs has been a durable niche VCS in the Haskell and functional-programming world: it remains packaged by major Unix package managers, published on Hackage/cabal workflows, and hosted on Darcs Hub, which the project names as today's place for Darcs project hosting. ### How it is used Users clone repositories, record patches, inspect authors, send or upload patches for review, and tune behavior through repository-local _darcs/prefs files or per-user ~/.darcs files. ### Why package nerds care For package nerds, Darcs is a reminder that version control history is not just Git history: it carries its own repository format, hosting culture, patch-screening workflow, Haskell toolchain requirements, and config file conventions. ### Timeline - 2000s: David Roundy's Darcs and patch-theory work established the project's distinctive model. - 2010s: Darcs Hub and darcsden-style hosting became the main public hosting story for Darcs users. - 2026: The Darcs front page lists Darcs 2.18.5 and cabal, stack, Nix, binary, and source install paths. ### Related projects - Darcs is commonly compared with Git, Mercurial, and Subversion, and its ecosystem includes Darcs Hub, darcsden, Trac Darcs integrations, Hackage/cabal packaging, and the Darcs wiki itself. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.darcs/defaults, _darcs/prefs/defaults, ~/.darcs/author, _darcs/prefs/author ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** darcs - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - darcs - 2.18.4-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: darcs from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | distributed, interactive, smart revision control system | http://darcs.net/ - Nix - darcs: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: darcs from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - apk - darcs - 2.18.5-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darcs from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Patch-based revision control system | https://darcs.net/ - apk - darcs-doc - 2.18.5-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: darcs-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Patch-based revision control system (documentation) | https://darcs.net/ - dnf - darcs - 2.18.5-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: darcs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | A distributed, interactive, smart revision control system | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-darcs - 2.18.5-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-darcs from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell darcs library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-darcs-devel - 2.18.5-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-darcs-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell darcs library development files | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-darcs-doc - 2.18.5-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-darcs-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell darcs library documentation | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-darcs-prof - 2.18.5-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-darcs-prof from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell darcs profiling library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-data-ordlist - 0.4.7.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-data-ordlist from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell data-ordlist library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/data-ordlist - dnf - ghc-data-ordlist-devel - 0.4.7.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-data-ordlist-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell data-ordlist library development files | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-data-ordlist-doc - 0.4.7.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-data-ordlist-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell data-ordlist library documentation | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-data-ordlist-prof - 0.4.7.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-data-ordlist-prof from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell data-ordlist profiling library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-strict-identity - 0.1.0.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-strict-identity from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell strict-identity library | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/strict-identity - dnf - ghc-strict-identity-devel - 0.1.0.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-strict-identity-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell strict-identity library development files | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs - dnf - ghc-strict-identity-doc - 0.1.0.0-51.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: ghc-strict-identity-doc from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Haskell strict-identity library documentation | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [cabal-install](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cabal-install/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ghc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ghc/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [breezy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/breezy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, version-control. - [git](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, version-control. - [mercurial](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mercurial/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed-vcs, version-control. - [braid](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/braid/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [codeberg-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/codeberg-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [cvs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cvs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [cvs-fast-export](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cvs-fast-export/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. - [cvsutils](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cvsutils/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, version-control. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/darcs.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/darcs.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph