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diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
index a0ab38c049..570bb1191c 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
@@ -1096,8 +1096,9 @@ class Spec(object):
def __contains__(self, spec):
- """True if this spec has any dependency that satisfies the supplied
- spec."""
+ """True if this spec satisfis the provided spec, or if any dependency
+ does. If the spec has no name, then we parse this one first.
+ """
spec = self._autospec(spec)
for s in self.traverse():
if s.satisfies(spec):