Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > One of the core focuses of Fedora Server is to simplify things. It's > meant to help less-experienced users of Linux get up and running with > common activities more quickly. Providing the "PostgreSQL" role and the > "MariaDB" role means that we've forced the user to do additional > research to figure out what they want. However, if we name one "Database > Server", we are implicitly telling the user: "use this one, unless you > have a specific need". Well, but a user will still have to do that research. A database isn't like a browser or word processor; it doesn't exist in a vacuum and one database engine can't just replace another at will. Some programs support a wide variety of database engines, and some don't. For example, for good or bad, many PHP-based things assume MySQL; some can be configured otherwise, but most default to MySQL (and that may be all the developers actually test). Database engines are probably one of the least interchangeable pieces, so choosing _any_ (I'd say the same thing if this was a proposal to use MariaDB) as "THE database engine" is poor IM(very)HO. It isn't about promoting one engine over another, it is just that none are really the one engine to rule them all. Given that, I don't see a reason to declare any engine as the one true Database Server. I think any role for a database should have the engine name in the Role. But yeah, that's just my opinion, probably not even worth two cents. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
