Comment 1 for bug 108119

I cannot reproduce this. I cut my internet connection, and thus r-m failed to download nvidia-glx. After clicking away the synaptic error dialog, nothing particular happened: the driver stayed disabled, and I did not get a 'reboot required' icon. This matches the intended behaviour of the code. My xorg.conf was not altered.

So it seems that this was fixed in Synaptic perhaps?