[aur-general] TU Application - Massimiliano Torromeo

[Dave Reisner]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 06:27:29PM +0200, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are we getting rid of MySQL? Or just making Maria a "replaces" package?
> 
> Getting rid of MySQL would be crazy!
> Of course, I'm going to use the replaces/provides flags, for both
> mariadb and percona.

Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, but there's no
reason this should be forced as an upgrade path for mysql users. Using
replaces here is just as good as killing it off entirely. Users still
have a choice -- don't take it away from them.

dave