Percona MySQL and MariaDB in EPEL

[Ville Skyttä]

On 06/19/2011 07:01 PM, Marian Marinov wrote:

> I'm planning on proposing both Percona-SQL and MariaDB packages for inclusion 
> in the EPEL-5 repo. 
> 
> I wish to know would you accept these packages in EPEL if they are a 
> replacement of the current mysql.

I think that's clearly a "no".

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL#What_is_Extra_Packages_for_Enterprise_Linux_.28or_EPEL.29.3F

"EPEL packages [...] will never conflict with or replace packages in the
base Enterprise Linux distributions."