On 08/30/2014 05:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-08-30, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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? > > There are concerns in the wider open source community about Oracle's > long-term plans for MySQL. I also imagine there is some concern from > RedHat that Oracle is trying to move in to RedHat's space with Oracle > Linux. > >> I'm using epel and remi as my repos. > > Questions about non-CentOS repos should probably be directed to lists > for those repos; CentOS has no official authority over EPEL (I am not > familiar with remi). > >> 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. > > If MariaDB is coming from EPEL, as suggested by your yum output, then > CentOS is not trying to get you to do anything. But I believe that > MariaDB is also in core CentOS. Perhaps RH does not have an alias for > mysql-server but EPEL does? Mariadb replaces mysql in RHEL-7 (and also Fedora 19), so it also replaces mysql in CentOS-7. yum install mariadb-server should be used to get the default mariadb server from the distro. > > MariaDB should be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. If you have concerns > about Oracle and MySQL you should seriously consider trying MariaDB. > You may decide against it, of course, but at least you'll have made a > technical decision instead of a knee-jerk one. (I do still find links > that conflate MySQL and MariaDB, which is unfortunate.) > > --keith > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140901/45c2ee43/attachment-0004.sig>