Does MacPorts depend on Spotlight?

[Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli]

ciao,

i have stolen lot of stuff myself from this git repository: https://mths.be/macos <https://mths.be/macos> 

hth,
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> On 22 Nov 2021, at 07:22, Sriranga Veeraraghavan <sriranga at berkeley.edu <mailto:sriranga at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I’ve often wondered how to find out about the functionality of all the different command line programs in MacOSX.  The best list I’ve come across is:
> 
> https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/ <https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/>
> 
> There is also a interesting Git project that shows the differences in man pages between Big Sur and Monterey, but I’ve never seen anything like that for earlier releases:
> 
> https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff <https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff>
> 
> Best,
> 
> -ranga
> 
>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 13:37, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Bill Cole wrote:
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>>>> Where are all these obscure commands documented?
>>> 
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/ and /usr/share/man/man8/ mostly...
>> 
>> Perhaps I should've expressed it better :-)
>> 
>> I've found all sorts of obscure commands (such as "security" and the aforementioned "mdutil") mentioned on this list; now, how am I supposed to know that they existed in the first place?  I cannot find any sign of an admin guide, and this 2nd-hand MacPro did not come with media.
>> 
>> It seems that I have to look at all the manfiles and wonder what they do...
>> 
>>> FWIW, 'apropos spotlight' will tell you that mdutil and mddiagnose exist.
>> 
>> Sure, but my query was more of a general nature.
>> 
>> -- Dave
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