Instead of saying "rpmdrake is horrible", it would be more useful if you
list what you don't like so it can be improved. No tool is perfect, I'm
sure Synaptic has flaws to, so just switching to Synaptic only means
trading one set of flaws for another.
Personally I find rpmdrake works perfectly fine (the startup speed
could need improving though), it does all I need it to do (and I would
consider myself an advanced user, since I have 15 years Linux experience
and work as a sysadmin) and then there are always the urpmi CLI tools as
alternative.
So lets stop wasting time by talking badly about all those things that
make Mandriva (and therefore Mageia) the great distro it is, and instead
lets concentrate on improving (rather than replacing) the tools of
Madriva/Mageia.
What specifically is worse about .rpm packages vs. .deb packages? I've
used both and don't have a clue why someone would believe .deb is
inherently better than .rpm.
Also, what does synaptic do that rpmdrake doesn't do? Why are some users
clamoring for synaptic and add those features to rpmdrake? And would
these questions get a better answer on
https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev or
irc://irc.freenode.net/mageia-dev?
