Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> writes:
Another thought is that within the distro, patching software to stop
using
the deprecated library name is what we want. For Fedora, removing the
compatibility symlink, not providing an alternative, and rebuilding any
packages that use the older library name may be the right way to go.
Well, that would certainly make life easier on my end. A quick look
with repoquery suggests that only these packages are referencing
libmysqlclient_r ... so maybe just rebuilding them is what to do.
mysql++
mysql-connector-c++
nekovm
qt-mysql
regards, tom lane