On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:17 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 01/31/2013 04:03 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:49:11 +0000
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/31/2013 03:24 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> proposal: clearly state that fedora prefers mariadb?(for now)
>>> passed +7 -0
>> That "for now" is just based on the fact that there no longer is no
>> one maintaining the package in Fedora right?
> Not really, no.
>
>> Which begs the question why has it not been orphaned and pending
>> removal from the distribution.
> Because the current mysql maintainers are keeping it around for f19 as
> an option and others have expressed interest in taking over maintaining
> it.
>
> kevin
Ok I'll open a ticket requesting postgresql being the distribution
default database of chose.
We don't have a 'default database of choice'. As Kevin carefully pointed
out, the context here was 'in the area of MySQL-alike databases': we are
saying that we consider MariaDB our preferred 'MySQL-ish thing', not
that it's the Official Fedora Database.
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