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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by BenjiWiebe on Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:48AM (#16929393)
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.
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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by kasabali on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:49AM (#16930715)
> 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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