yochananmarqos [1] filed a request to merge etc-update-nogithub [2] into etc-update [3]: If the user does not want to download the tarball from GitHub and would rather use Gentoo's git source, then he should request that the maintainer of etc-update change it, not create a duplicate package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yochananmarqos/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/etc-update-nogithub/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/etc-update/