diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
index 1eefbb6..b83929c 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-publish.yaml
@@ -41,7 +41,16 @@ jobs:
             echo "==> Building $pkg"
             cd "$pkg"
 
-            makepkg -sf --noconfirm
+            # Install makedepends manually (cargo, go, …) and skip the full
+            # depends check via -d. Rationale: moonarch-git's runtime depends
+            # include AUR-only packages (stasis, auto-cpufreq, ttf-ubuntusans-nerd)
+            # which pacman can't resolve. Those deps aren't needed at build time.
+            MAKEDEPS=$(awk '/^makedepends=\(/,/^\)/' PKGBUILD | grep -oE "'[^']+'" | tr -d "'" | tr '\n' ' ')
+            if [ -n "$MAKEDEPS" ]; then
+              # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+              sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm $MAKEDEPS
+            fi
+            makepkg -sfd --noconfirm
 
             # makepkg can emit multiple artifacts per build (main + -debug
             # split package). Upload each. Arch filename convention: