Why is Macports doing this?

[bunk3m]

I've been using Little Snitch for some time and Macports for much longer.

In the past few months I started getting a notice that the user macports 
is trying to run trustd.

Why would macports be running a process every morning to connect to 
Apple?  I thought Macports only ran when you invoked it from the command 
line.

I hope the screenshot will come through that shows the Little Snitch notice.

Thanks in advance for your help.

B.
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