Changes to make MySQL vs. MariaDB less confusing

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.08.2013 15:06, schrieb Rich Mattes:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:40 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com <mailto:james.hogarth at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Frankly I'm still of the opinion the Oracle distribution of the MySQL based server should be dropped
>     entirely... If Oracle want 'community-mysql' to exist for Fedora and want to maintain it themselves then they
>     can set up their own repositories on their own infrastructure and these compatibilities issues with Fedora can
>     be removed entirely as a result.
> 
> If someone (Oracle-employee or not) is willing to go through the trouble of learning the packaging guidelines,
> submitting and working through a review, getting sponsored, and getting a package into the distribution, what basis
> does anyone have to block that effort? 

look at the mess in the mariadb.spec caused by this

frankly, that is why i maintain my own package which has no longer
anything common with the Fedora ones except some needed patches

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