diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ab450739da84d8f5e84861608c85f9476d37e7b7..91ab98cfc82762e0f493878610a86f1ae8d181ea 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ This recipe installs **all** most used scripts and interpreter proxies for your
 package. It will look at the ``buildout`` section entry called ``prefixes``,
 that potentially lists prefixes that should be **prepended** to the default
 python environment. In these prefixes, it will look for standard python
-directories. If one or more are found found, these paths are **prepended** into
+directories. If one or more are found, these paths are **prepended** into
 the resulting scripts generated by this recipe and eggs will be searched on
 those locations prioritarily.
 
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ extra-paths
   Extra paths to be appended in a generated script. To prepend, using the
   ``prefixes`` entry.
 
+nose-flags
+  These are extra flags that are **appended** to the given ``nosetests``
+  command line, automatically. Use this to preset arguments you like running
+  all the time like ``-v``, for example.
+
 Sphinx Recipe (Deprecated)
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e57f4e1c9f410060ef0aa0f1a1d036b3121117db..462ca4044497c9422a18c35eae02eaffd956eda3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='xbob.buildout',
-    version='0.2.2',
+    version='0.2.3',
     description="zc.buildout recipes to perform a variety of tasks required by Bob satellite packages",
     keywords=['buildout', 'sphinx', 'nose', 'recipe', 'eggs', 'bob'],
     url='http://github.com/bioidiap/xbob.buildout',
diff --git a/xbob/buildout/scripts.py b/xbob/buildout/scripts.py
index a4f56c3322c83bd17e2d3e0e44b49cf265235139..e158dbea9ade6a9049a01fe49700750ed774db04 100644
--- a/xbob/buildout/scripts.py
+++ b/xbob/buildout/scripts.py
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ class Recipe(object):
     nose_options = zc.buildout.buildout.Options(buildout, name + '+nosetests', 
         options.copy())
     if nose_options.has_key('interpreter'): del nose_options['interpreter']
+    if nose_options.has_key('nose-flags'):
+      flags = tools.parse_list(nose_options['nose-flags'])
+      init_code = ['sys.argv.append(%r)' % k for k in flags]
+      nose_options['initialization'] = '\n'.join(init_code)
     nose_options['entry-points'] = 'nosetests=nose:run_exit'
     nose_options['scripts'] = 'nosetests'
     if 'nose' not in self.eggs: self.eggs.append('nose')