mysql is now a critpath package? WTF?

[Rex Dieter]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Tom Lane (tgl at redhat.com) said:
>> So I submitted a routine bodhi request for updating mysql, and was
>> astonished to find that it's marked as critpath.  It was never that
>> before.  Who decided this,
> 
> The dependency solver. It's not a manual process.
> 
>> and would it not have been polite to involve
>> or at least notify the package maintainer?
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2011-
December/000868.html
> 
> We could consider having pkgdb e-mail the owner when the critpath bit for
> the package gets flipped. Toshio, is that possible?
> 
> As to where it came from, the dep chain is:
> 
> kdepim
>  -> akonadi
>    -> qt-mysql, mysql-server
> 
> kdepim is in critical path as part of 'critical-path-apps', which is
> essentially mail & web.

Sorry Tom, didn't foresee all the implications when we flipped f16's default 
akonadi backend sqlite -> mysql late(ish) in the cycle.

I'm of a mind to revisit this (again).

-- rex