MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for home-assistant-service-pip [2]: Unneeded, broken package for the same purpose as extra repo's home- assistant. It runs a systemd service as root, to automatically install home- assistant with pip, into system Python's site-packages!. Which fortunately no longer works: pip error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed Please kindly delete this obsolete and ill-conceived PKGBUILD from AUR. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/home-assistant-service-pip/