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Description of problem:

Can't install R programming language from EPEL. Further description here: 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-python-container/pull/347


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. podman run --user root registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi bash -c 'yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm && yum install -y R' bash


Actual results:
Can't install R programming language because of missing dependencies

Expected results:
Install R programming language from EPEL.


Additional info:

UBI is use case based and meant to be used for cloud native development. R is a very common language for modern development. Even though R is not supported in RHEL it would be useful to be able to build R containers with UBI for redistribution in many different scenarios including ISV, Community, and customer use cases. The missing packages are:

1. texlive-collection-basic
2. tcl-devel
3. texinfo-tex (appears missing in RHEL 8, not sure)
4. tk-devel

Hello,

texlive texlive-xetex texlive-* p7zip p7zip-plugins cmake3 cairo-devel

is needed too. if some of that is missing, please consider adding it.

Thank you for reaching out with this request. We appreciate your interest in Red Hat Universal Base Image. Today, UBI is really targeted towards cloud native, application developers working with languages like Java, Node.js, Golang, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP [1]. Currently, this request does not fall within the currently approved use cases for inclusion in UBI. The scope of UBI will likely grow and we will keep this use case in mind.

[1]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/10/09/what-is-red-hat-universal-base-image/

Best Regards
Scott McCarty, RHCA
Product Management - Containers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux & OpenShift
Email: smccarty

*** Bug 1991710 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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