Hi Sergei,

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 3:24 PM Sergei Golubchik via developers
<developers@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, Kristian,
>
> This was done to improve coexistence with MySQL. As MariaDB drifts
> farther from MySQL, there might be more and more users who could want to
> install them side by side, so it's important to reduce conflicts on file
> names.

Would it be thinkable for the mariadb packages to recommend or suggest
a separate compatibility package that would install symbolic links to
provide MySQL compatible program names? In that way, no deprecation
messages would seem to be necessary at runtime.

Marko
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Marko Mäkelä, Lead Developer InnoDB
MariaDB plc
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