Why are RPM's distro specific?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:10 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 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.

Well, actually it has one "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.

Another example of a recursive acronym is PHP, which stands for PHP:
Hypertext Preprocessor.

Cheers, Paul.
-- 
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>