[Mageia-dev] mysql vs mariadb

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011, Oliver Burger wrote:

> 
> So I'd like to ask you, what you think, we should do?
> - package mariadb as an alternative for mysql
> - package mariadb nd drop mysql or
> - stay with mysql and not package mariadb at all at least for the time 
> being

I would start with mariadb as an alternative. Then drop mysql later,
if/when it's confirmed that mysql is really dead and we could check
that mariadb is a good replacement.