Red Hat RSA IG&L 7.2.0 installer requires packages from Optional repository

[Jayvd]

A few days ago we've reinstalled a Red Hat system with RSA IG&L 7.2.0 and during the installation some Red Hat packages were not available in the "standard" Red Hat repositories anymore and they are moved to the "optional" repository. This was the case for the following two packages: 

• dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts
• compat-libstdc++-33

The following article explains the purpose of the other types of repositories: 

• Red Hat Extras, Optional And Supplementary Repositories - Red Hat Customer Portal 

Basically for the repo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Optional (RPMs) the following applies: 

• Description:  Open source software that either compliments software out of the base repository, or software that users would like but Red Hat generally does not want to support.
• Support:  No, nor is ABI compatibility guaranteed.

In one of the next release could this dependency be evaluated and when possible be removed? As Red Hat has moved the package to the optional repository there is no end-to-end support available for the OS package. 

[IanStaines]

The deja fonts are only required by the Jasper Reports third party reporting library that we embed so we do not have direct control over this.  

Ironically the deja fonts are only required when using Jasper Reports with XWindows which is a Jasper Reports feature that RSA IG&L does not leverage.  Unfortunately the classloader pulls these in on startup so they must be present even if they are not used.

[KevinPerkins]

Perhaps RSA could work with Jaspersoft to factor out the XWindows support or lazily load those resources?

[IanStaines · Accepted solution]

Jasper Reports integration was completely redone for 7.2.1 release which includes a new version of Jasper Reports.

As far as I have been able to determine there are no longer any dependencies on deja fonts in the current version.

[Jayvd]

Great to see the dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts is not needed anymore, but how about the compat-libstdc++-33? Is the dependency for that package also removed due to the Jasper Reporting Engine integration renewal? 

The discussion is marked as answered, its partly answered at the moment. 

[MHelmy]

I see that compat-libstdc++-33 is an Oracle database 12c dependency (https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/LADBI/pre_install.htm#LADBI7486), so not much we can do about it as well.

Moving to the later versions of Oracle in the upcoming versions of IGL should resolve this.

[Jayvd]

That fully answers the question, this will resolve itself!

Thank you