MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for ninja-samurai [2]: Samurai doesn't support ninja 1.10+ features. Please delete this shim package that was made to use samurai as backend instead of ninja build tool. This use case is no longer viable. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ninja-samurai/