Hi, Marko,

On Sep 26, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 3:24 PM Sergei Golubchik via developers wrote:
> >
> > 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.

I think we already have that, separate recommended compatibility
package. The plan was to make it suggested eventually, as some undefined
point in time in the future.

But I don't remember it was discussed in relation to whether it makes
the warning unnecessary.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect, MariaDB Server
and secur...@mariadb.org
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