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.