Why are RPM's distro specific?

[Robert Locke]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:00 -0500, Marc M wrote:
> RPMs are for Redhat-based distributions only,
<snip>

Gee, I think that might be a surprise to Suse that they are a RedHat-
based distribution....

Actually, does that make AIX one too???

BTW, while Red Hat is the original contributor of rpm, it is now, I
believe, officially a self-referencing acronym, standing for "rpm
package manager"....

HTH,

--Rob