[CentOS] why does centos 7 want to install mariadb instead of mysql ?

Sat Aug 30 18:10:53 UTC 2014
Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>

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

[root at 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 at 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
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