Why are RPM's distro specific?

[Michael Scottaline]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:39:22 -0500
Robert Locke <rlocke at ralii.com> insightfully noted:

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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