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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 04:34:07
Message-Id: 20160808163315.097b8a5b@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs by james
1 On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 00:26:01 -0500
2 james <garftd@×××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > so it is paused for a licensed
5 > download, as necessary, is not a show stopper
6
7 The problem is that download requires a Browser with JavaScript
8 support, because it requires JavaScript to set a cookie, and that
9 cookie activates the download working.
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11 Which means if your installer is for instance, Curses based, you're
12 pretty much out-of-luck.
13
14 "Please open browser at this point, but we don't have a working desktop
15 environment yet to do this" is a bit of a hard problem.
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17 "You need 2 computers to install this" is also a bit of a problem.
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19 So installing Java would have to be done /after/ the install.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>