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the conversation flow as I see it is

> neofetch is dead; here's my fork

< there exists already a maintained fork -- ``hyfetch"

> hyfetch explicitly inserts lgbtq+ things into the software, and thus is probably not what people want when they think ``maintained neofetch fork"

seems perfectly reasonable.



Exactly. That is just a different wording of what, in the very post of mine you replied to, I said would be reasonable.

But that isn't all that the (now flagged and hidden so I can't evidence this) post I was replying to said more, and a small essay elsewhere in the thread (also flagged and hidden) said more again (or repeated the same things in more ways, to be less generous).


I went through all the flagged replies, and I think if you stepped back and looked at the conversation again you might find that some of the implications you're seeing might not exist.

Even if they did exist, the /explicit/ point being made is valid: hyfetch is an expressly lgbt thing, and a lot (most?) people would prefer their vanity-specification-printer wasn't intertwined with that kind of thing.

It would be like learning the currently maintained version of grep includes random Christian iconography, if that helps the point get across -- christian or not, that's not what people go to software for, and it would thus be pretty useless to mention christGrep in a discussion about maintained alternatives to the original.




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