<LnL>
and then post a link to the manual section and close/lock the issue
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<abathur>
spotlight, man
<abathur>
I'm starting to wonder if nobrowse disables indexing
<LnL>
could be
<LnL>
why? do you want to index the store
<evelyn>
if indexing is turned off, I have found ~/Applications/Nix\ Apps is not indexed
<evelyn>
FWIW
<evelyn>
I'm not sure if it's related but from time to time the file association with KeepassXC (which lives there) also will go amiss
<abathur>
I don't really want to, just want to see if the .metadata_never_index has the same effect and might be a better fix than the mdutil command domenkozar[m] reported as breaking
<evelyn>
9that happened after I enabled nobrowse)
<LnL>
ah
<abathur>
especially since the base installer could just touch that, if it works, and it'd work on (all? more?) macOS versions
<abathur>
I am also playing with the dotfile on a mojave system in the other room (though not on /nix yet); I'll check on it next time I make coffee
<abathur>
if that seems to work I'll try the dotfile in /nix there as well
<LnL>
mdutil has been there since like 10.6 or something
<abathur>
I haven't found anything official-looking, but I have found an SO question, and comments on a 2010 blog post about moving /Users to a separate volume, where people appear to likewise conclude that nomount keeps spotlight from indexing a volume
<LnL>
pretty sure I got nobrowse from a suggestion in either the pr or issue, maybe they included some more context
<abathur>
er nobrowse sorry
<LnL>
man... how slow in inkscape
<abathur>
is that the new supposedly-native inkscape? I think I saw that on HN some time in the past couple weeks
<abathur>
I may be mis-remembering; haven't used it so I don't have much context to hang it on
<LnL>
dunno, the one that's blocking the channel
<abathur>
ah
<abathur>
IIRC it was like a new major release announcement
<abathur>
I'm a little unsure because I see some GH/SE threads where people are insisting that .metadata_never_index is working for them in folders, but it looks to me like it only works at a volume root
<abathur>
I was not successful using it to keep /nix from indexing, but moving it to the root of the volume on mojave did disable indexing for the whole thing
<abathur>
so it would "work" in catalina if you want to use it as an alternative to the mdutil command domen reported breaking
<abathur>
but I'm not sure it'll actually have any effect if nobrowse does indeed also disable indexing
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<abathur>
so I suspect you can just cut that line altogether
<abathur>
oh, I guess it's that whole comment block, sorry
<abathur>
or show it only for earlier macOS versions, where it might have a real effect
<LnL>
from what I remember .metadata_no_index only works on for the entire volume
<abathur>
yeah
<abathur>
I saw some threads/PRs proposing using it for ignoring node_modules directories and arguing inconclusively over whether it worked
<abathur>
with some people saying it did and some saying it didn't each time
<abathur>
but from what I can tell, it's root volume only
<abathur>
it looks like folders ignored through the privacy tab in spotlight system prefs are added to an array of exclusions the VolumeConfiguration.plist for the volume
<abathur>
when I ignore homedir folders they turn up in /System/Volumes/Data/.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist
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<domenkozar[m]>
hmmm, how can I really be the only one noticing hangs on 2.3.4?
<domenkozar[m]>
seems like I managed to get nix to loop
<LnL>
I'm on whatever I last contributed so wouldn't look at me :)