[clairity]

well yes (and also for backing up i believe), but at least for me, there aren't tons of files that i care about which change often, so i don't need it constantly going off and cataloging the latest homebrew updates or whatever.

[KennyBlanken]

You can exclude opt and any other directories full of frequently changing files you don't care about spotlight indexing.

[solarkraft]

Why isn't that the default?

[clairity]

ah yes, i should look into doing that.