Since people seem to have forgotten about pacman -Ql and are incapable of rational thought, I've prepared the following news draft about kmod replacing m-i-t. Comments welcome. ---------8<------------------------------------- kmod replaces module-init-tools With module-init-tools being declared a dead project by its current maintainer, a new project has stepped up to take its place: kmod. This is intended to be a drop-in replacement, though deprecated functionality in module-init-tools has not been reimplemented. If, upon upgrade, pacman pacsaves [/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf], you should move it back. This file, and any other config read by module-init-tools is still read by kmod. However, the kmod package will no long include a blank config file. You'll find the same (if not more) documentation in the manpages and --help output for the binaries.