title: can i safely remove mariadb from centos linux?
body: <p>I just did a clean install of <code>CentOS linux</code>.  The first thing I did after installing <code>CentOS</code> was to download MySQL and try to install the <code>-server</code> <code>rpm</code> file.  But the installation fails with a lot of messages stating conflicts with <code>MariaDB</code> packages which seem to be redundant to those in MySQL.  I want to use MySQL as my database.  <strong>Are there any reasons why I should not just delete <code>mariadb</code>, so that the conflicts can be resolved?</strong>  If <code>mariadb</code> performs some important functions in <code>CentOS</code>, I do not want to end up having my system crash.</p>