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		BenjiWiebe on April 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released Maybe it's time to switch to another distro. In Fedora, trying to install MySQL will install MariaDB, but it is a redirect of sorts, the package is not named MySQL.

kasabali on April 26, 2018 [–]

> In Fedora, trying to install MySQL will install MariaDB, but it is a redirect of sorts, the package is not named MySQL.

Same as in Debian. mysql-server is a transitional package which ends up installing mariadb-server package at the end.

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