I have opened a pull request to remove the 500+ ports for PHP PEAR modules and their portgroup: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/4192
This was suggested by Ryan in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56424 . Perry agreed with this idea. One question I have is whether ports PEAR modules from pear.phpunit.de (such as php-timer) should be deleted as well. It was suggested that I bring attention to this on the mailing list to get more feedback from members. Christopher A. Chavez
