> On Oct 14, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Clemens Lang <c...@macports.org> wrote:
> ----- On 15 Oct, 2016, at 01:05, Fred Wright f...@fwright.net wrote:
> ...
>> One can also accomplish this via:
>> 
>>      sudo touch /opt/local/var/macports/build/.metadata_never_index
>> 
>> Though I don't know if this works across all OS versions.
> 
> Do you have documentation on this? The only documentation I could find
> back then suggested that Spotlight will ignore hidden directories, so
> that's why we made it hidden.
> 
Yes, this came up more than 2 years ago.  I couldn’t find official docs at that 
point.  

http://www.mail-archive.com/macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org/msg26538.html

Only a discussion on apple-stackexchange:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92784/preventing-spotlight-from-indexing-files-folders

Right now, searches on Apple’s Developer site are just endlessly spinning.

Craig
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