MariaDB and Fedora

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 16.02.2012 16:56, schrieb Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail:
>> I'm wondering why MariaDB not in Fedora yet, is it technical or political? ..
>>
>> I did saw some discussion in the EPEL list about including MariaDB ,
>> and theres argument whether it should replace mysql or should be made
>> to run parallel. Understandable for EPEL as thats meant for enterprise
>> class packages.
>>
>> But for Fedora, aint MariaDB should replace MySQL? .. similar to
>> LibreOffice replaced OpenOffice ..
>
> you must not include both conflicting packages in the distribution
> and please leave us server-admins with "compatible" replacements
> for major-services in peace

and systemd/init is not major service? :)

Fedora have been historically breaking compatibility in favor of a
freer alternative (eg: libreoffice vs openoffice) .. or new
technologies (eg: systemd) .. imo, this is a similar issue.

MariaDB does promises compatibility with existing mysql libraries, it
also have a more open community which accepts patches and community
contribution better than Oracle.

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