[Bug 194312] games/minecraft-server issues after update to 1.8

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--- Comment #14 from Jonathan Price <freebsd at jonathanprice.org> ---
(In reply to John Marino from comment #13)
> (In reply to Jonathan Price from comment #11)
> > The files had to be manually created so that the port could create the
> > symlinks to /usr/local/share/minecraft-server. 
> 
> You can create symlinks that don't point to existing files.  Ports / pkg
> should not complain about that.  Did you try?

I had always assumed that you symlinks needed a pre-existing inode to link to,
and apparently had never questioned this assumption. I have just tested your
theory, and indeed it works, which allows me to remove the blank configuration
files.

Thanks! this is a much cleaner solution, and also inadvertently solves the
issue of configuration files being deleted / overwritten, I shall attach a new
patch to invalidate the old one.

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