If one needs the report builder in libreoffice (a fairly standard situation for anyone using the database capabilities), it is necessary to rebuild from ports and remove the --disable-report-builder option. That would not be a big deal except doing so has widestread ramifications -- updates to ports force things like gstreamer to be upgraded, which breaks packages as "unrelated" as darktable. The net result is many things which could otherwise be installed via a package have to be rebuilt from ports.
seems this PR has been seen, applied and forgotten to be closed (or overcome by events carrying the same idea) see commit 6ffd18ecefc73a041332a8c824a2009f2bf88016
Ah, yes, seen and applied to new release builds :) Dima, on behalf of team