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It has always been a fact of life for software developers that their applications may need to be ported to multiple operating systems. It is also becoming more common that a particular operating system might run on several different platforms, or architectures.
RPM's ability to support multiple architectures and operating systems makes it easy to build the same package for many OS/platform combinations. A package may be configured to build on only one architecture/OS combination, or on several. The only limitation is the application's portability.