Must admit magnus is right about the difference between "technical" and "regular"-users.
Today i started adding the cauldron-repositories, and did a first update to my test-Mageia.
The first bunch of packages (about 40) went without a hassle through MCC.
But then MCC stopped functioning, and i had to change to konsole to get in the other 600.
Due to a sloppy internet-connection, i had to restart the updating-process twice, and in the end i was missing four packages.
I managed to install them all in the end, but you have to be familiar with the command-line.