I finally got the time to install LM 17 Cinnamon on my main box and I'm generally happy with it, except when it comes to package handling tools: initially I thought there was a problem with Synaptic because it insisted in wanting to remove packages that could be updated when I clicked on them, after a little research I found out that this is intended behavior and not a bug. Removing this functionality from Synaptic is wrong on many levels:
- first of all, since the change goes totally against the expected behavior of the software, previous users are confused by this choice: googling around I found quite a number of "OMG my system is broken, can't update packages!" posts;
- forcing Synaptic to *remove* packages, with no explanation whatsoever, strikes me as the worst possible choice wrt the user;
- finally, Synaptic is not a part of Cinnamon, or Mate, or Linux Mint as a distro: it's a general purpose tool very popular on most distros, if you change its behavior in such a radical way you're going to introduce an inconsistency with other distros, and with people using more than one distro; I don't think this is the right thing to do, if the LM devs think that Synaptic is not fit for the job, just do not include it in LM and let people who install it nonetheless have it behave the standard way.
In conclusion: please give us back the good old Synaptic we all love and use(d)

Rehdon