Hi,
This is a similar move with replacing OpenOffice (back then also under the Oracle umbrella) with LibreOFfice.
Replace product owned by evil corporation with the true open source alternative (which happens to be developed by the original devs of MySQL!); this may not be RH's main reason, but it's how I see it.
For one I totally support this move and I was a bit afraid RHEL7 wouldn't be released in time to incorporate this change.
You should use MariaDB without fear, it should be the same thing and replaces MySQL gracefully.
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Dunphy" <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2014 7:10:53 PM
> Subject: why does centos 7 want to install mariadb instead of mysql ?
>
> Hey all,
>
> I just got around to trying out CentOS 7. And for some reason when I
> attempt to install mysql-server, instead I'm offered mariadb? I'm using
> epel and remi as my repos.
>
> [root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)
>
> [root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb
> repo id repo name
> status
> epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enter
> 5,610
> remi Les RPM de remi pour Ent
> 1,005
> remi-php56 Les RPM de remi de PHP 5
> 227
> rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastru
> 2
> rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 4,360
> rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 4,718
> rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 9
> repolist: 15,931
>
>
>
> [root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #yum install mysql-server
> Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb
> Resolving Dependencies
> ......
>
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ================================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository
> Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
> mariadb-galera-server
> x86_64 1:5.5.37-2.el7 epel
> 11 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> boost-program-options
> x86_64 1.53.0-18.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 154 k
> galera x86_64 25.3.5-7.el7 epel
> 1.1 M
> libaio x86_64 0.3.109-12.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 24 k
> mariadb x86_64 1:5.5.37-1.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 9.0 M
> mariadb-galera-common
> x86_64 1:5.5.37-2.el7 epel
> 212 k
> perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
> x86_64 2.061-3.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 32 k
> perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
> x86_64 1:2.061-4.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 57 k
> perl-DBD-MySQL x86_64 4.023-5.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 140 k
> perl-DBI x86_64 1.627-4.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 802 k
> perl-IO-Compress
> noarch 2.061-2.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 260 k
> perl-Net-Daemon noarch 0.48-5.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 51 k
> perl-PlRPC noarch 0.2020-14.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
> 36 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================
> Install 1 Package (+12 Dependent packages)
>
> Total download size: 23 M
> Installed size: 114 M
> Is this ok [y/d/N]:
>
>
> I don't know what you think, but this is just weird to me. Why on earth
> would CentOS 7 be trying to get me to install a database that I don't
> really want instead of MySQL? Nothing against mariadb. It's just that I
> haven't tried it yet, and don't have a real interest to.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
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