diff --git a/ezjail-admin b/ezjail-admin
index a898862..51377a0 100755
--- a/ezjail-admin
+++ b/ezjail-admin
@@ -92,18 +92,14 @@ ezjail_splitworld() {
   # If the default flavour example has not yet been copied, do it now
   [ -d ${ezjail_flavours}/default ] || mkdir -p ${ezjail_flavours} && cp -p -R ${ezjail_examples}/default ${ezjail_flavours}
 
-  # A ports collection inside jails is hardly useful w/o an appropriate
-  # /etc/make.conf. If we find basejail/usr/ports/Makefile, assume that
-  # the admin wants a working make.conf in new jails also a softlink to
-  # the ports in basejail is provided
-  if [ -f ${ezjail_jailbase}/usr/ports/Makefile ]; then
-    # no /usr/ports? link to /basejail/usr/ports
-    [ -e ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/usr/ports ] || ln -s /basejail/usr/ports ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/usr/ports
+  # no /usr/ports? link to /basejail/usr/ports
+  [ -e ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/usr/ports ] || ln -s /basejail/usr/ports ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/usr/ports
 
-    if [ -f ${ezjail_examples}/default/etc/make.conf -a ! -f ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/etc/make.conf ]; then
-      cp -p ${ezjail_examples}/default/etc/make.conf ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/etc/
-      echo "Note: a non-standard /etc/make.conf was copied to the template jail in order to get the ports collection running inside jails."
-    fi
+  # A ports collection inside jails is hardly useful w/o an appropriate
+  # /etc/make.conf.
+  if [ -f ${ezjail_examples}/default/etc/make.conf -a ! -f ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/etc/make.conf ]; then
+    cp -p ${ezjail_examples}/default/etc/make.conf ${ezjail_jailtemplate}/etc/
+    echo "Note: a non-standard /etc/make.conf was copied to the template jail in order to get the ports collection running inside jails."
   fi
 
   # The ugly perl hack[tm]. Note: we wont do such things for any given