I accidentally set all packages for one of the most recent update to cleanbuild from scratch. This (52Gb download is on me, right?
I might be here until 2028 
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On arch, I accidentally did a kernel rebuild (first time in years) yesterday. Despite machines being a lot faster these days, it still took longer than I remembered even.
It just seems to be a metric-f***ton of electron32 components.. going on forever and ever..
Are you sure you even need it?
Electron packages only fall to AUR once they are deeply out of date. In most cases, you can just remove old electron versions.
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Genuinely unsure, it was just a straight -Syyu update. I’ll let it run (hopefully completing before the heat-death of the universe, and then just strip of deprecated items).
Ahh : Bingo! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1kie9fm/all_i_did_was_update_my_arch_linux_but_it_seems/
Try uninstalling the electron package. Most likely you don’t need it and pacman won’t complain about dependencies.
Old electron packages can be removed as dalto said. They’re moved to AUR, hence you see a huge download (source code) which will take another few hours to build. You most likely don’t need it.
I dont know why there is so much guess-work here.
pacman -Qi electron32
Observe sections like ‘required by’ .. if empty then you know nothing relies on it and you have it for no reason.
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as an addendum to this ^^ comment, I also pay as much attention to rundeps when deciding whether to sever with an app as well
I’d tend to do this outside of yay or pacman, but it’s a good point to make when considering patching too. Good call.
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