> From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] > > This is essentially what the consensus of the discussions I have seen boils > down to. Some distributions, such as Fedora, are "switching." It's an > either/or. Debian appears to prefer to let the marketplace decide > ("marketplace" here used to mean "users"). They will offer a choice as long > as it is feasible. > > > This sounds exactly right. We have quite a few SQL databases in the > package repository (mysql, postgresql, sqlite for starters) - why is not > mariadb just another addition? Where did this notion of an either/or > choice come from?
I think it's because MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. Since they both do exactly the same thing, why have both?, is the thinking. And because Oracle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/00a601ce6b01$b440d490$1cc27db0$@allums.com
