It would nice for MariaDB to obsolete MySQL and have an emulation switch that allows it to masquerade as a MySQL installation as well as operate in native mode. This will provide backwards compatability for systems that use products that want to see a MySQL installation. This will also provide a fresh canvass for new development that only wants to talk/depend directly with native MariaDB. This will also provide compatability for systems that want to do both. Perhaps this MySQL emulation component for MariaDB can be delivered as a separate RPM that "provides" mysql. This will make the original MariaDB RPM cleaner. Arthur. On 24 January 2013 13:05, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:49 -0800, Andrew Rist wrote: >> but the database choice for Fedora should only focus on the merits and >> the quality of the MySQL code > > You may have read the mission statement, but you appear to have entirely > missed the four foundations: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations > > of which 'Freedom' and 'Friends' are notably the first. The concerns > I've seen raised around MySQL are not related to the 'merits and the > quality of the...code' but to the freedom of the development community, > a topic that was noticeably absent from your mail. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
