On 06/09/2016 04:34 PM, Anne Mulhern wrote: > I get nothing for > >> dnf search retard faggot beaner nigger cunt > > though. > > I get plenty for > >> dnf search anus bugger > > but those all look quite accidental. > > Notice that all instances of fuck that show up are at least somewhat appropriate to the > app or library, and have little to do with the core obscene meaning of the word. > "fuck" in "brainfuck", means "to mess with", "thefuck" is probably short for > "what the fuck" (a pretty random exclamation that one might make after mistyping > something), and "fuck it" means > "just forget about it, ignore it". They are all fairly denatured, and descriptive > of the purpose of the library. > > "Sexy" is even more denatured than these uses of "fuck". Someone recently told me > that a clothes washer was probably the least sexy household appliance I'ld > ever buy, and I'm pretty sure they just meant "appealing" or "exciting" or > something like that, i.e., they did _not_ really mean "sexually attractive" > or anything else to do with sex. It's a pretty common usage, these days. > > So, just to make certain, the fact that a library was called, e.g., libeaner, would not be an objection If I were to see a package called libeaner, my assumption as a C coder would be to assume that it was like libiberty: named that way because when passed to GCC it would become "-leaner" (like libiberty becomes "-liberty"). If it carried a racial connotation, I'd probably give them the benefit of the doubt that it was unintentional.
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