On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:31:46 +0100, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Norvald H. Ryeng wrote:
This dependency is a problem. It makes it impossible to install MySQL-server on a KDE system since mariadb-server and MySQL-server conflict.
That just shows how broken it is to have both in Fedora at the same time.
The current solution is broken, but I hope we can find a way to have both.
We need to make sure that
- the live CD composes don't fail due to conflicts and
- our users get the default database flavor, not a random one,
and I don't see any other way to enforce this than to require mariadb-server directly.
Are you saying that you would always like to have one particular server implementation, or could you depend on a common provide and let the user choose one or the other (as long as the default situation is solved)? This will influence the possibilities we have wrt. server packaging:
- If your answer is that you would like akonadi-mysql to always choose MariaDB or MySQL (no user choice), we have to make MariaDB and MySQL parallel installable.
- If you are happy with either implementation (default, or changed manually by the user), we can have conflicting MariaDB and MySQL packages.
Regards,
Norvald H. Ryeng