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by ajuc 3651 days ago
> Also, I don't even want to try to imagine shipping an installable desktop application for non-technical users that relies on MySQL!

Amarok music player on KDE linux desktop environment (at least on version 3.5) kept the music collection metadata in database. You could choose sqlite, mysql or postgress during installation if I remember correctly. It worked ok, because of the package system.

I guess if you used separately installed databases there would be some conflicts, though.