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 :-)
mike hoy
Michael Scottaline wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:39:22 -0500 Robert Locke <rlocke@xxxxxxxxx> 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 =============================== One of them, at least. I believe the now pariah status, Caldera, was also one of the original contributors to RPM. ------------------------------------- RL>believe, officially a self-referencing acronym, standing for "rpm RL>package manager".... =================== "self-referencing"? like "Gnu's Not Unix" for GNU?? <8^) Mike
