On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:33:15 +1200
Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >  so it is paused for a licensed 
> > download, as necessary, is not a show stopper  
> 
> The problem is that download requires a Browser with JavaScript
> support, because it requires JavaScript to set a cookie, and that
> cookie activates the download working.
> 
> Which means if your installer is for instance, Curses based, you're
> pretty much out-of-luck.
> 
> "Please open browser at this point, but we don't have a working
> desktop environment yet to do this" is a bit of a hard problem.
> 
> "You need 2 computers to install this" is also a bit of a problem.
> 
> So installing Java would have to be done /after/ the install.

Scratch this.

Just use iced-tea JDK by default. People who want oracle can do the
extra work.

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