if u meant source files in tar format, the difference is the way the package is
managed...
RPM is the redhat package management system developed by redhat and used by many
distributions like mandrake,suse,etc....there are other distro which uses the .deb
package management(corel, debian)..
Older system like slackware(as well as the bleeding edge ones like gentoo) manages the
packages in tar.gz format only , and thus source of all the packages is stored as a
part of the package.
RPM is a compiled form of the source with some information like the dependencies,
information of the package, files provided, signature of the provider, file integrity
etc...
If u keep installing packages in src form thru make, make install..u will get confused
and will not know how much packages are installed, etc...
for uninstalling the packages you have installed using make install...u need to have
the source directory and type 'make uninstall' to uninstall the package.
For this we have so called source rpm...using which you can compile the packages with
your own options and build a binary rpm...and once you install that binary rpm..u
could uninstall the same using rpm commands...
Regards
G.Vinubalaji
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