Flabber ghasted stunned that sharutils/uuencode does not exist?!

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On a brand new install of RHEL 9.2 here : 

apollo# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.2 (Plow)

I can easily install gcc compiler tools : 

apollo# yum install gcc
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 Package                Architecture  Version                         Repository                               Size
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 gcc                    x86_64        11.3.1-4.3.el9                  rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms         32 M
Installing dependencies:
 glibc-devel            x86_64        2.34-60.el9                     rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms         54 k
 glibc-headers          x86_64        2.34-60.el9                     rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms        556 k
 kernel-headers         x86_64        5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2           rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms        5.1 M
 libxcrypt-devel        x86_64        4.4.18-3.el9                    rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms         32 k
 make                   x86_64        1:4.3-7.el9                     rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms           542 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  6 Packages

Total download size: 38 M
Installed size: 94 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
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  Verifying        : kernel-headers-5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64                                                5/6 
  Verifying        : make-1:4.3-7.el9.x86_64                                                                    6/6 
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Installed:
  gcc-11.3.1-4.3.el9.x86_64                   glibc-devel-2.34-60.el9.x86_64      glibc-headers-2.34-60.el9.x86_64
  kernel-headers-5.14.0-284.25.1.el9_2.x86_64 libxcrypt-devel-4.4.18-3.el9.x86_64 make-1:4.3-7.el9.x86_64         

Complete!
apollo# 
apollo# 

However where us uuencode and uudecode ? Where is sharutils ? 

apollo# 
apollo# rpm -qf /usr/bin/uuencode
error: file /usr/bin/uuencode: No such file or directory
apollo# 
apollo# yum install sharutils
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No match for argument: sharutils
Error: Unable to find a match: sharutils
apollo# 

Really ? This must be impossible.

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