Why are RPM's distro specific?

Mike Hoy mhoy4 at cox.net
Thu Jan 20 21:56:12 UTC 2005


maybe i'm being a word snob but the correct way to state this is

rpm and gnu are recursive acronymns..

hell i prolly didn't even spell that right :-)

mike hoy

Michael Scottaline wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:39:22 -0500
>Robert Locke <rlocke at ralii.com> insightfully noted:
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>RL>On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:00 -0500, Marc M wrote:
>RL>> RPMs are for Redhat-based distributions only,
>RL><snip>
>RL>
>RL>Gee, I think that might be a surprise to Suse that they are a RedHat-
>RL>based distribution....
>RL>
>RL>Actually, does that make AIX one too???
>RL>
>RL>BTW, while Red Hat is the original contributor of rpm, it is now, I
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>One of them, at least.  I believe the now pariah status, Caldera, was also
>one of the original contributors to RPM.
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>RL>believe, officially a self-referencing acronym, standing for "rpm
>RL>package manager"....
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>"self-referencing"?  like "Gnu's Not Unix" for GNU??  <8^)
>Mike
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