Why are RPM's distro specific?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 21 08:20:30 UTC 2005
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.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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