Why are RPM's distro specific?

Thu Jan 20 02:00:47 UTC 2005

RPMs are for Redhat-based distributions only, so whenever you see RPMs
you know that its a redhat 'type' distro.  With say, Debian or Knoppix
you have a differrent package manager so you have .deb files.  RPM
stands for Red Hat Package Manager.  That said, you can sometimes take
some liberties with rpm's.  For example you can run the 'noarch'
version or run one .rpm on another machine and sometimes get it to
work depending on the tweaking.

Marc

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:42:24 -0400, Arthur Pemberton
<dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
> Out of curiousity, I'd like to know why RPM's are, or at least some are,
> distro specific? That would be with the obvious exception of distro
> specific apps.
> 
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