On 03/14/2013 05:03 AM, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Honza Horak
<hhorak(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> so why is MariaDB not obsoleting mysql without all
>> this versioning tricks and "mysql-oracle" installs
>> the server under "/usr/local/mysql-oracle/" and
>> provides a "mysql-oracle.service"?
>
>
> This is simply not possible in Fedora:
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_Files_or_Directorie...
Should an exception be allowed - or is the rule so rigid ?
Anything under /usr/local (except of the basic directory layout) is
supposed to be 100% under a user's control and not to be touched by
distributions.
Somewhat oversimplified, this means /usr/local is off-limits of Fedora,
no exceptions allowed.
Ralf