This caused models shipped with some contrib apps to pollute the namespace when user's apps had the same name (e.g. auth, sites), even when these contrib apps weren't installed.
This undesired loading of contrib apps happened when model validation was executed, for example when running management commands that set or inherit `requires_model_validation=True`:
cleanup, dumpdata, flush, loaddata, reset, runfcgi, sql, sqlall, sqlclear, sqlcustom, sqlflush, sqlindexes, sqlinitialdata, sqlreset, sqlsequencereset, syncdb, createsuperusers, ping_google, collectstatic, findstatic.
This could also cause hard to diagnose problems e.g. when performing reverse URL resolving.
Backport of [16493] from trunk.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.3.X@16541 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37