diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/common.nix
index 96689fa75ad..36f600c1486 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/common.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, makeDesktopItem, makeWrapper, patchelf, p7zip
-, coreutils, gnugrep, which, git, python, unzip, androidsdk }:
+, coreutils, gnugrep, which, git, python, unzip, jdk }:
 
-{ name, product, version, build, src, meta, jdk } @ attrs:
+{ name, product, version, build, src, meta } @ attrs:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/default.nix
index 1f1dee8d197..acc3a75cca1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/idea/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { stdenv, callPackage, fetchurl, makeDesktopItem, makeWrapper, patchelf
 , coreutils, gnugrep, which, git, python, unzip, p7zip
-, androidsdk, jdk, oraclejdk8
+, androidsdk, jdk
 }:
 
 assert stdenv.isLinux;
@@ -8,12 +8,7 @@ assert stdenv.isLinux;
 let
 
   bnumber = with stdenv.lib; build: last (splitString "-" build);
-  mkIdeaProduct' = callPackage ./common.nix { };
-  mkIdeaProduct = attrs: mkIdeaProduct' ({
-      # After IDEA 15 we can no longer use OpenJDK.
-      # https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-147272
-      jdk = if (bnumber attrs.build) < "143" then jdk else oraclejdk8;
-  } // attrs);
+  mkIdeaProduct = callPackage ./common.nix { };
 
   buildAndroidStudio = { name, version, build, src, license, description }:
     let drv = (mkIdeaProduct rec {