diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 65dec21b..97403ecd 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ Defaults to ::
   If you support Internet Explorer version 8 and below, you should
   declare javascript files as ``text/javascript``.
 
+``VERBOSE``
+.............
+
+``True`` if Pipeline should print some extra information for debugging.
+
+Defaults to ``settings.DEBUG``.
 
 Embedding fonts and images
 ==========================
diff --git a/pipeline/conf.py b/pipeline/conf.py
index 885d273d..501d76bf 100644
--- a/pipeline/conf.py
+++ b/pipeline/conf.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     'PIPELINE_URL': _settings.STATIC_URL,
 
     'SHOW_ERRORS_INLINE': _settings.DEBUG,
+    'VERBOSE': _settings.DEBUG,
 
     'CSS_COMPRESSOR': 'pipeline.compressors.yuglify.YuglifyCompressor',
     'JS_COMPRESSOR': 'pipeline.compressors.yuglify.YuglifyCompressor',
diff --git a/pipeline/manifest.py b/pipeline/manifest.py
index 29498f95..1dce9639 100644
--- a/pipeline/manifest.py
+++ b/pipeline/manifest.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 class PipelineManifest(Manifest):
     def __init__(self):
-        self.packager = Packager()
+        self.packager = Packager(verbose=settings.VERBOSE)
         self.packages = self.collect_packages()
         self.finders = get_finders()
         self.package_files = []
diff --git a/pipeline/storage.py b/pipeline/storage.py
index c75d0ebd..aa4af4a9 100644
--- a/pipeline/storage.py
+++ b/pipeline/storage.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 
 from django.core.files.base import File
 
+from pipeline.conf import settings
+
 
 class PipelineMixin(object):
     packing = True
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ def post_process(self, paths, dry_run=False, **options):
             return
 
         from pipeline.packager import Packager
-        packager = Packager(storage=self)
+        packager = Packager(storage=self, verbose=settings.VERBOSE)
         for package_name in packager.packages['css']:
             package = packager.package_for('css', package_name)
             output_file = package.output_filename
diff --git a/pipeline/templatetags/pipeline.py b/pipeline/templatetags/pipeline.py
index b9fdea21..5e3d940c 100644
--- a/pipeline/templatetags/pipeline.py
+++ b/pipeline/templatetags/pipeline.py
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ def package_for(self, package_name, package_type):
             package = {package_name: package}
 
         packager = {
-            'js': Packager(css_packages={}, js_packages=package),
-            'css': Packager(css_packages=package, js_packages={}),
+            'js': Packager(css_packages={}, js_packages=package, verbose=settings.VERBOSE),
+            'css': Packager(css_packages=package, js_packages={}, verbose=settings.VERBOSE),
         }[package_type]
 
         return packager.package_for(package_type, package_name)
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def render_compressed_sources(self, package, package_name, package_type):
         if settings.PIPELINE_COLLECTOR_ENABLED:
             default_collector.collect(self.request)
 
-        packager = Packager()
+        packager = Packager(verbose=settings.VERBOSE)
         method = getattr(self, 'render_individual_{0}'.format(package_type))
 
         try: