On 11/26/10 2:28 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
on a support point of view ( from a RHEL perspective) : most (if not all) of the packages in the optional repo for rhel6-server are in fact packages supported in the Workstation/Client subscription. So they are made available through an 'optional' channel for people with a Server subscription, but those customer won't get any support for such packages coming from Optional
Is there any chance that the packages in the optional repo will be the same as packages in some other repo but at different revs (presumably so that by enabling the optional repo you would get a new version)? If so, merging it with any other repo contents will cause problems later. Also, the more you put in one repo the more likely it is to cause dependency issues when you have 3rd party repos enabled, so mixing it with extras is likely to cause trouble too.