You should have this: $ grep JAVA_PKG_STRICT /etc/make.conf JAVA_PKG_STRICT="true" And make sure stuff that you commit compiles fine with it. Otherwise people who have it set might get breakages that you miss. Currently there's problem with codemodel-annotation-compiler-2.1 by MvG, which has only a DEPEND (not RDEPEND) on codemodel, without calling java-pkg_getjars with --build-only (in this case it should probably add to RDEPEND not use --build-only). Caster