And what would have happened if the Indian government junked the whole tender and went in for a direct purchase of US aircraft!! That’s still not impossible if price negotiations collapse.
While there was a indeed a more than subtle marketing angle to operations in Libya, I don’t think any realistic air force (India/Japan etc) would read too much into operations against a rusty Soviet era military.
After all the pains that India took to insure that the MMRCA tender was handled completely professionally, there is no way that the government will now throw away the carefully crafted competition and tender evaluation process.
The one "advantage" that the United States had over the Europeans was that their equipment has been in use for over a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, where much of the European equipment has not been used under "combat" conditions. Libya has given the French and the Eurofighter consortium the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of their own smart weapons in a real world environment.
Do you really think that the Libyan operation ever really needed front line Rafales in order to carry out the civilian protection UN mandate?