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diff --git a/system/mariadb/README b/system/mariadb/README index c10c1e258d5e5..8b7d4ae2e6707 100644 --- a/system/mariadb/README +++ b/system/mariadb/README @@ -4,10 +4,18 @@ engines, including the Aria storage engine. This conflicts with Slackware's mysql package. Do NOT install both! +This conflicts with mytop, as MariaDB already ships with its own +version of mytop. Note that mytop requires perl-TermReadKey at +runtime. + If you want to build the embedded mysql server (libmysqld), which you will need if you plan to (re)build amarok, then run the script with EMBEDDED=yes in the environment, but be aware that because mariadb builds this as shared library, applications linking it will no longer work with Slackware's mysql package. +Note that the default storage engine for InnoDB tables in MariaDB is +XtraDB. If you want to use Oracle's InnoDB plugin, read the notes +in rc.mysqld. + libevent is an optional dependency of mariadb. |