Hi,

This is a similar move with replacing OpenOffice (back then also under the Oracle umbrella) with LibreOFfice. Replace product owned by evil corporation with the true open source alternative (which happens to be developed by the original devs of MySQL!); this may not be RH's main reason, but it's how I see it.

For one I totally support this move and I was a bit afraid RHEL7 wouldn't be released in time to incorporate this change.

You should use MariaDB without fear, it should be the same thing and replaces MySQL gracefully.

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Tim Dunphy" bluethundr@gmail.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2014 7:10:53 PM Subject: [CentOS] why does centos 7 want to install mariadb instead of mysql ?

Hey all,

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? I'm using epel and remi as my repos.

[root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)

[root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #yum repolist Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb repo id repo name status epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enter 5,610 remi Les RPM de remi pour Ent 1,005 remi-php56 Les RPM de remi de PHP 5 227 rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastru 2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,360 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,718 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 repolist: 15,931

[root@web1:/etc/yum.repos.d] #yum install mysql-server Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb Resolving Dependencies ......

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: mariadb-galera-server x86_64 1:5.5.37-2.el7 epel 11 M Installing for dependencies: boost-program-options x86_64 1.53.0-18.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 154 k galera x86_64 25.3.5-7.el7 epel 1.1 M libaio x86_64 0.3.109-12.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 24 k mariadb x86_64 1:5.5.37-1.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 9.0 M mariadb-galera-common x86_64 1:5.5.37-2.el7 epel 212 k perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 x86_64 2.061-3.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 32 k perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib x86_64 1:2.061-4.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 57 k perl-DBD-MySQL x86_64 4.023-5.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 140 k perl-DBI x86_64 1.627-4.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 802 k perl-IO-Compress noarch 2.061-2.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 260 k perl-Net-Daemon noarch 0.48-5.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 51 k perl-PlRPC noarch 0.2020-14.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 36 k

Transaction Summary

Install 1 Package (+12 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 23 M Installed size: 114 M Is this ok [y/d/N]:

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.

Thanks Tim -- GPG me!!

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