Comment 4 for bug 1431345

> Have you removed your /etc/mysql directory?

I have done that to try to fix another problem related to installing mysql-server-5.6 after having installed (and subsequently removed) mariadb 10.0. However, the removal of that directory was done after removing the mysql-server package, so I was expecting that installing the package again would re-create it. It seems to have done that as I can see that directory in my system, however this error is still present.

What are the consequences of manually removing this directory?