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On the Adobe website this is an obvious step: click the respective
button. In the case of a package which can be installed automatically as
a dependency there is no such obvious step to accept the EULA (I
wouldn't have even known the package was being installed had I not
spotted it downloading). In my case the primary package I installed was
Opera, but I don't consider that relevant.

It's not really my place to say, but I would suggest some kind of prompt
at installation time (like Debian does on some packages) may be the best
solution, or alternatively only enabling the respective repository after
prompting the user on the EULA, or some such.

For what its worth, my real gripe is that I prefer to choose on a case-
by-case basis which non-free (by DFSG terms) software I install, and
since I had chosen not to install Adobe flash I was not happy about it
being installed behind-my-back, so to speak. However accepting or not
accepting Adobe's EULA is a close enough proxy that it doesn't seem
worth worrying about the difference.

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