Comment 5 for bug 1132690

I disagree that dependency handling is to blame, but that's just my 2¢. No idea about the other packages, but agree that handling things uniformly makes sense.

By the way you may have misjudged the flashplugin-nonfree package: from what I remember, it doesn't install flash directly, but has to be run from the command-line to do so, and it probably asks the licence then.