diff --git a/libimagrt/Cargo.toml b/libimagrt/Cargo.toml
index a812e697..870b0410 100644
--- a/libimagrt/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libimagrt/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ xdg-basedir = "1.0"
 itertools = "0.5"
 tempfile = "2.1"
 ansi_term = "0.9"
+is-match = "0.1"
 
 [dependencies.libimagstore]
 path = "../libimagstore"
diff --git a/libimagrt/src/configuration.rs b/libimagrt/src/configuration.rs
index 96d32010..38de0789 100644
--- a/libimagrt/src/configuration.rs
+++ b/libimagrt/src/configuration.rs
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ impl Deref for Configuration {
 fn get_verbosity(v: &Value) -> bool {
     match *v {
         Value::Table(ref t) => t.get("verbose")
-                .map_or(false, |v| match *v { Value::Boolean(b) => b, _ => false, }),
+                .map_or(false, |v| is_match!(v, &Value::Boolean(true))),
         _ => false,
     }
 }
diff --git a/libimagrt/src/lib.rs b/libimagrt/src/lib.rs
index 1670418f..63a49c45 100644
--- a/libimagrt/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libimagrt/src/lib.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ extern crate ansi_term;
 
 extern crate clap;
 extern crate toml;
+#[macro_use] extern crate is_match;
 
 extern crate libimagstore;
 extern crate libimagutil;