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 ?