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diff --git a/buildstream/_loader/types.py b/buildstream/_loader/types.py
index 5b4d0121e..a49ff380b 100644
--- a/buildstream/_loader/types.py
+++ b/buildstream/_loader/types.py
@@ -93,6 +93,20 @@ class Dependency():
self.junction = _yaml.node_get(dep, str, Symbol.JUNCTION, default_value=None)
self.strict = _yaml.node_get(dep, bool, Symbol.STRICT, default_value=False)
+ # Here we disallow explicitly setting 'strict' to False.
+ #
+ # This is in order to keep the door open to allowing the project.conf
+ # set the default of dependency 'strict'-ness which might be useful
+ # for projects which use mostly static linking and the like, in which
+ # case we can later interpret explicitly non-strict dependencies
+ # as an override of the project default.
+ #
+ if self.strict == False and Symbol.STRICT in dep:
+ provenance = _yaml.node_get_provenance(dep, key=Symbol.STRICT)
+ raise LoadError(LoadErrorReason.INVALID_DATA,
+ "{}: Setting 'strict' to False is unsupported"
+ .format(provenance))
+
else:
raise LoadError(LoadErrorReason.INVALID_DATA,
"{}: Dependency is not specified as a string or a dictionary".format(provenance))