diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 See full history at: <https://github.com/faylang/fay/commits>
 
+### 0.21.2 (2014-10-21)
+
+* Previously all package imports were ignored, now we only ignore `"base"` package imports.
+
 ### 0.21.1 (2014-10-21)
 
 * Lots of additions to in `fay-base` adding the following modules:
diff --git a/fay.cabal b/fay.cabal
--- a/fay.cabal
+++ b/fay.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                fay
-version:             0.21.1
+version:             0.21.2
 synopsis:            A compiler for Fay, a Haskell subset that compiles to JavaScript.
 description:         Fay is a proper subset of Haskell which is type-checked
                      with GHC, and compiled to JavaScript. It is lazy, pure, has a Fay monad,
diff --git a/src/Fay/Compiler/Import.hs b/src/Fay/Compiler/Import.hs
--- a/src/Fay/Compiler/Import.hs
+++ b/src/Fay/Compiler/Import.hs
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@
   -> F.ImportDecl
   -> Compile a
 compileImport compileModule i = case i of
-  -- Package imports are ignored since they are used for some trickery in fay-base.
-  ImportDecl _ _    _ _ _ Just{}  _ _ -> return mempty
-  ImportDecl _ name _ _ _ Nothing _ _ -> compileModuleFromName compileModule name
+  -- Trickery in fay-base needs this special case
+  ImportDecl _ _    _ _ _ (Just "base") _ _ -> return mempty
+  ImportDecl _ name _ _ _ _ _ _ -> compileModuleFromName compileModule name
 
 -- | Find an import's filepath and contents from its module name.
 findImport :: [FilePath] -> ModuleName a -> Compile (FilePath,String)