[Bug 1283746] Re: Should be able to cancel installation by rejecting EULA

[Margarita Manterola]

When you reject the license, the fonts are not installed.  The installer
is free software, the EULA applies to the fonts that are downloaded from
an external site, not to the installer package.

I agree that the text could be improved to make this clearer to
everyone.

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Title:
  Should be able to cancel installation by rejecting EULA

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  
  It isn't clear how to reject the EULA and cancel the installation of ttf-mscorefonts-installer.

  Installing via Synaptic, I first get a dialog that includes the full
  text of the EULA and a checkbox labelled "Do you accept the license
  terms?" There is a help button and a forward button but no way to
  explicitly decline the EULA.

  <img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Y8WKV.png" width="250" alt="install
  step 1" />

  On the second step, a user who has selected "Forward" without checking
  the EULA box sees a new message:

  > Declined  "TrueType Core Fonts for the Web EULA "
  > If you do not agree to the "TrueType Core Fonts for the Web EULA " license terms you cannot install this software. the installation of this program will be cancelled:

  <img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/nxUHt.png" width="250" alt="install
  step 2" />

  However, installation is not cancelled. `dpkg-query` clearly shows the
  package as installed:

      amanda at mona:~$ dpkg-query -l ttf-mscorefonts-installer
      Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
      | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
      |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
      ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
      +++-==============-============-============-=================================
      ii  ttf-mscorefont 3.4+nmu1ubun all          Installer for Microsoft TrueTyp

  
  The first screen should give a user the option to explicitly reject the EULA, and having rejected it, installation should actually be cancelled.

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