Hi all.
I am not sold on the idea of calling it 'optional' - as mentioned before, we dont really have a supported and optional model in CentOS. Does everyone really want to go with the 'optional' name ?
I'm (even with RHEL) wondering what makes them optional. Optional compared to what? Sounds like some alternative in there, but then again the question: An alternative to what?
I gather just having one repo with the "optional" packages in there isn't that great, as people might want to stay close to the "non-optional" RHEL when using CentOS.
I'd put those packages into Extras - even though we already had an extra repository. But if those packages which RH deems to be optional - so are ours.
What I don't want to have is base, updates, plus, extras and optional. Either we drop base and put our packages into "optional" too, or we just put "optional" into our extras.
optional in extras would also be fine imho.