diff --git a/databases/rrdtool12/Makefile b/databases/rrdtool12/Makefile
index 89e536ff9216..d8b50deaceca 100644
--- a/databases/rrdtool12/Makefile
+++ b/databases/rrdtool12/Makefile
@@ -90,9 +90,13 @@ post-extract:
 		-e 's/^	cd .* rrdtool.html index.html/	#/' \
 		${WRKSRC}/doc/Makefile.in
 .endif
+.if defined(NOPORTEXAMPLES)
+	${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/^SUBDIRS = /s| examples | |' \
+		${WRKSRC}/Makefile.in
+.endif
 
 post-install:
-.if !defined(BATCH)
+.if !defined(BATCH) && !defined(NOPORTEXAMPLES)
 	@${ECHO_MSG} ""
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "############################################################################"
 	@${ECHO_MSG} "# See ${PREFIX}/share/examples/rrdtool for some demonstration code        #"
diff --git a/databases/rrdtool12/pkg-plist b/databases/rrdtool12/pkg-plist
index 2206eaf88e22..c2094e3d4310 100644
--- a/databases/rrdtool12/pkg-plist
+++ b/databases/rrdtool12/pkg-plist
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ lib/librrd_th.la
 lib/librrd_th.so
 lib/librrd_th.so.2
 include/rrd.h
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/4charts.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/bigtops.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/cgi-demo.cgi
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/minmax.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/piped-demo.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/perftest.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/shared-demo.pl
-%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/stripes.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/4charts.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/bigtops.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/cgi-demo.cgi
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/minmax.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/piped-demo.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/perftest.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/shared-demo.pl
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%%%EXAMPLESDIR%%/stripes.pl
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/html/RRDp.html
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/html/RRDs.html
 %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%%/html/bin_dec_hex.html
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ include/rrd.h
 %%WITH_PERL%%%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/RRDs/.packlist
 %%WITH_PYTHON%%%%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/rrdtoolmodule.so
 %%WITH_RUBY%%%%RUBY_SITEARCHLIBDIR%%/RRD.so
-@dirrm %%EXAMPLESDIR%%
+%%PORTEXAMPLES%%@dirrm %%EXAMPLESDIR%%
 %%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%%/txt
 %%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%%/html
 %%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm %%DOCSDIR%%