Why are RPM's distro specific?
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Thu Jan 20 22:10:29 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:56 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
<grin> Nope.
Acronyms has no "n" in it. Otherwise, you are correct in that
"recursive" is a better word choice than "self-referencing", which
itself may or may not be correct... I cannot be certain right now.
Cheers,
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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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