[arch-dev-public] Merging multilib toolchain with [core]

[Johannes Löthberg]

Quoting Bartłomiej Piotrowski (2017-11-22 12:19:12)
> Hi,
> 
> For a long time we have been maintaining multilib-enabled gcc package
> separately under [multilib] repo. Compilation takes a lot and usually it
> falls behind because I forget to keep it in sync with [core].
> 
> I propose to merge it with core/gcc instead and split lib32-gcc-libs.
> The latter would be moved to [core] due to dbscripts inability to
> maintain split packages in multiple repositories. On the same note, the
> same would happen to lib32-glibc.
> 
> Any objections?
> Bartłomiej

I'm definitely in favour of it, and have had some issues quite a few 
times with automatic package building and having pacman automatically 
replace gcc with gcc-multilib.

To work around it with the new reproducibility builds that are currently 
running we chose to work around it by just explicitly specifying all of 
the multilib-devel packages and then piping `yes` into pacman.

(Side note:  It would be nice if there was a handy way to say yes to all 
group members programmatically and also accepting any replaces.  Since 
the two prompts requires different input, it would currently require 
some hacky `echo` sequences into pacman, hm.)

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