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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dep.py5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dep.py b/pym/portage/dep.py
index e82942e47..6b38e8eed 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dep.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dep.py
@@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ def paren_enclose(mylist):
# This is just for use by emerge so that it can enable a backward compatibility
# mode in order to gracefully deal with installed packages that have invalid
-# atoms or dep syntax.
-_dep_check_strict = True
+# atoms or dep syntax. For backward compatibility with api consumers, strict
+# behavior will be explicitly enabled as necessary.
+_dep_check_strict = False
def use_reduce(deparray, uselist=[], masklist=[], matchall=0, excludeall=[]):
"""