Why are RPM's distro specific?

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>