On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:42 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In case of MySQL/mariadb (just for demonstration) the config file would > > contain say: > > MySQL +10000 > > mariadb -10000 > > which would tell yum to prioritize MySQL. > > > > I'm sure that there are several other use cases for such utility. It would > > bring a bit more complexity on the one hand, but would decrease ambiguity in > > specific cases on the other hand. > > > > Any ideas about such tool/plugin? > > I'm not following the MySQL/mariadb packaging discussion in full > detail - however, if we got to the point of discussing special yum > plugins, wouldn't it be much simpler to We, didn't, really. > * Modify the 10 packages that require mysql-server, the 19 packages > that require mysql, the 3 packages that require mysql-libs (all F18 > counts) to require mariadb-* explicitly instead of using the virtual > provide This means users can't choose between the mysql's if they want to, so if we do this it'd be much easier to just say "we'll only have a single `mysql' in Fedora" and then we'd just have to add one more obsolete to mariadb and everything works perfectly. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
