Permissions change with MacPorts 2.3?

[Craig Treleaven]

Hi:

I sometimes use EasyFind to search in portfiles.  I noticed today 
that the macports folder under ${prefix}/var is no longer visible.  I 
would guess this happened after I upgraded to MacPorts 2.3 but I 
can't be certain.  Using the command line, I see the following:

CT-MBP11:~ craigtreleaven$ ls - at al /opt/local/var/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  admin  408 10 Feb 10:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root  admin  510 10 Dec 17:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 29 May  2012 cache
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  admin  170 22 Mar 16:56 db
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  admin  170 19 Nov  2013 lib
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin  238 21 Apr 14:20 log
drwxr-xr-x@ 13 root  admin  442 27 May 16:11 macports
	com.apple.FinderInfo	 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  admin  136 29 May 09:49 mythtvuser
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 10 Feb 10:44 openldap-data
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 10 Feb 10:44 pwcheck
drwxr-xr-x   9 root  admin  306 29 May 09:49 run
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 10 Feb 10:44 state

CT-MBP11:~ craigtreleaven$ xattr -v /opt/local/var/macports
/opt/local/var/macports: com.apple.FinderInfo


Was it an intended change to hide this directory?  Or a glitch on my system?

Craig