giovanni@ says pear-MDB2-* don't work with newer PHP without patching, and PHP 5.6 is end-of-life soon.
does anyone care enough about them to do more than just remove them and dependent/related ports? Index: databases/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/databases/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.368 diff -u -p -r1.368 Makefile --- databases/Makefile 28 Sep 2018 22:24:24 -0000 1.368 +++ databases/Makefile 17 Oct 2018 17:39:44 -0000 @@ -126,12 +126,6 @@ SUBDIR += p5-ldap SUBDIR += p5-pgsql SUBDIR += p5-sybperl - SUBDIR += pear-DB - SUBDIR += pear-DB_DataObject - SUBDIR += pear-MDB2 - SUBDIR += pear-MDB2-mysql - SUBDIR += pear-MDB2-mysqli - SUBDIR += pear-MDB2-pgsql SUBDIR += pecl-redis,php56 SUBDIR += pecl-redis,php70 SUBDIR += pecl-redis,php71 Index: www/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.879 diff -u -p -r1.879 Makefile --- www/Makefile 4 Oct 2018 23:40:00 -0000 1.879 +++ www/Makefile 17 Oct 2018 17:39:44 -0000 @@ -379,7 +379,6 @@ SUBDIR += perlbal SUBDIR += phantomjs SUBDIR += php-markdown - SUBDIR += php-openid SUBDIR += php-predis SUBDIR += phpldapadmin SUBDIR += phpmyadmin (actual file removals elided to make the diff readable)