Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com> wrote:
> Is there really no way to do removal/install like above in one yum
> transaction?

I've been watching this thread but otherwise staying out of it :)

But to answer your question I believe that if you use yum shell and
tell it to erase mysql and install mariadb before running the
transaction then any shared dependencies would be left alone.

Richard