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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 05:44:08
Message-Id: 20160808174306.4592f082@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs by Kent Fredric
1 On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:33:15 +1200
2 Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> 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.
10 >
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
15 > desktop environment yet to do this" is a bit of a hard problem.
16 >
17 > "You need 2 computers to install this" is also a bit of a problem.
18 >
19 > So installing Java would have to be done /after/ the install.
20
21 Scratch this.
22
23 Just use iced-tea JDK by default. People who want oracle can do the
24 extra work.