I'm preparing a translation of the ports chapter for the german handbook using the new gettext tools. I want to remove that section before starting to reduce the overall number of strings, although I think gettext will filter them out. The commented section only contains legacy descriptions about pkg_* tools. I don't think that we ship any release of FreeBSD with pkg_* tools and since that section is commented out anyway, no one will miss it. In case they do, there's always the revision history available.
We should probably make a similar sweep over the handbook and check other commented sections to see whether we still need them or if they need work to be uncommented.