> Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. It makes sense if the distribution no longer includes mysql, and the mysql the

> Always struck me as a weird thing to do since mysql never stopped development. It makes sense if the distribution no longer includes mysql, and the mysql the distribution included previously was from before the fork: users who already had mysql installed would be automatically migrated to a compatible replacement. It's the same thing which happened with openoffice and libreoffice.